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Thought Provoking
MARIA NOCKIN visits the cinema
for Mariusz Trelinski's updated staging
of Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde' in HD
from New York Metropolitan Opera
Having opened the Metropolitan Opera with Mariusz Trelinski's production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, General Manager Peter Gelb began the 2016-2017 season of Met in HD transmissions to cinemas on 8 October 2016 with the same opera. A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Baden-Baden's Festival Hall, the Polish National Opera, and China's National Centre for the Performing Arts, Trelinski's updated staging is thought provoking.
Tristan is an ancient Celtic legend and Trelinski tweaked it a little bit as he turned it into a morality play for modern times. Swords turned into guns and sails became motors...
Copyright © 14 October 2016
Maria Nockin,
Arizona USA
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