Tristan und Isolde review – semi-staged Wagner sees Pappano and the LSO at their finest
Barbican, LondonClay Hilley was a blistering Tristan and Sara Jakubiak – in her role debut – a persuasive Isolde in this concert performance with Pappano and the London Symphony Orchestra detailed and minutely balancedThe London Symphony Orchestra’s regular concert performances of complete operas have become something of an institution. Janáček’s The Makropulos Affair and Strauss’s Salome had critics raving about high-definition orchestral textures and brutally streamlined drama. But few operas are more obviously made for the concert hall than Wagner’s…
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