A few years ago (in 2008 to be precise) I wrote the below essay after seeing Dieter Dorn’s production of Tristan und Isolde at the Met. A much shorter version of this essay appeared on 1 April 2008 at the Guardian theatre blog. I’ve appended two videos to the essay — the Liebestod from the [...]
SOURCE: Superfluities Redux at 08:27AM on December 2, 2011