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Visualizing the Depths of ‘Tristan’
By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
Published: April 29, 2007
STAGING Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is a notoriously treacherous proposition. A man and a woman are seized by a forbidden passion, are discovered and pay with their lives. That’s it — for three long acts, running four hours, give or take. Wagner thought of his cosmic rhapsody of love that kills not as a story set to music, but as “deeds of music made visible.”
Visualizing the Depths of ‘Tristan’
By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH
Published: April 29, 2007
STAGING Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is a notoriously treacherous proposition. A man and a woman are seized by a forbidden passion, are discovered and pay with their lives. That’s it — for three long acts, running four hours, give or take. Wagner thought of his cosmic rhapsody of love that kills not as a story set to music, but as “deeds of music made visible.”
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