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Nuanced revival of McVicar's Tristan und Isolde at the Wiener Staatsoper

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“Gould offered a strikingly naive rendering of the heroic knight”
Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 12 March 2017
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
Vienna State Opera
Mikko Franck, Conductor
Sir David McVicar, Director
Robert Jones, Set Designer
Petra Lang, Isolde
Stephen Gould, Tristan
Kwangchul Youn, King Marke
Sophie Koch, Brangäne
Matthias Goerne, Kurwenal
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera
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