Summary
Glyndebourne's best season in years has ended with a revival by Daniel Dooner of Nikolaus Lehnhoff's 2003 production of Wagner's Tristan And Isolde ****.
Tristan is one of opera's Mount Everests, and for a company without public subsidy to stage it would have been a remarkable achievement even if the kindest thing I could have said was to echo Dr Johnson's comment about a spectacle of which he disapproved: 'It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.'See the full content of this document
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Wagner Helps Glyndebourne Go Out in Style ; Classical
However, this Tristan is actually first-class, and the production is one of the most illuminating any Wagner opera has received in recent times.
Lehnhoff was Wieland Wagner's assistant at Bayreuth ...See the full content of this document
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