Review: Tristan Und Isolde, Royal Opera House
“Monsieur Wagner has good moments, but awful quarters of an hour!”, penned Rossini in a letter to a friend. I agree, to a certain extent. Wagner’s radical compositional concept Gesamtkunstwerk (“total work of art”), a fusion of the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, results in operas of epic proportions. The relatively slow musico-dramatic pace and... Read more → The p…