Tristan und Isolde from Bayreuth

[kernelbogey]

Tristan und Isolde

The opening production from the 2024 Bayreuth Festival in Germany, starring Andreas Schager as Tristan and Camilla Nylund as Isolde, with Semyon Bychkov conducting.

Broadcast Saturday 12 October 2024 1800

[Pulcinella]

Are you suggesting we can watch/listen somewhere?

[oliver sudden]

There’s a link in the post

[Pulcinella]

There’s a link in the post

Thanks.
Sorry, kb; it wasn't apparent/obvious to me.

[AuntDaisy]

Bit depressed to see "To listen on most smart speakers, just say: "Ask BBC Sounds to play Opera on 3."" in the listing.
I wonder how many people will be listening in on "smart speakers"?

BTW
Isolde does get around... she was also in last week's WDR3 broadcast of Tristan und Isolde (from Semperoper Dresden, January).
With Camilla Nylund as Isolde & Klaus Florian Vogt as Tristan. Available to listen to for 3 weeks.

[kernelbogey]

Thanks.
Sorry, kb; it wasn't apparent/obvious to me.

Fair enough, Pulcers: I debated for a few seconds to make it more explicit and perhaps made the wrong call. Now corrected.

[Pulcinella]

Fair enough, Pulcers: I debated for a few seconds to make it more explicit and perhaps made the wrong call. Now corrected.

Thanks. It just looked more like an announcement than a link.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Fair enough, Pulcers: I debated for a few seconds to make it more explicit and perhaps made the wrong call. Now corrected.

link or no link thanks for posting. That’s the evening sorted .

[kernelbogey]

I feel ambivalent about T&I.... I adore the Ring, and have had serious passionate periods of my life listening to it. But Tristan reminds me of the downside of The Ring - the long, history-recalling monologues by Wotan for example. I would give it a go tonight except that I actually do not feel up to 4 hours of Gesamtkunstwerk.

[smittims]

Me too. The music's marvellous, but the story is dated. Why didn't they just behave themselves? I chicken out and just listen to the music.

[Maclintick]

This Isolde is way too wobblesome for me - don’t think I’m going to last the distance

[Ein Heldenleben]

This Isolde is way too wobblesome for me - don’t think I’m going to last the distance

Have to say I think it’s excellent.,..

[Pulcinella]

This Isolde is way too wobblesome for me - don’t think I’m going to last the distance

Snap. Except I gave up a while ago.
Can it be the microphones?
I found the soprano in the recently broadcast Rachmaninov The bells similarly too extreme on the vibrato front, but a friend who sang in the choir (admittedly behind her) said he hadn't noticed it on the night.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Snap. Except I gave up a while ago.
Can it be the microphones?
I found the soprano in the recently broadcast Rachmaninov The bells similarly too extreme on the vibrato front, but a friend who sang in the choir (admittedly behind her) said he hadn't noticed it on the night.

It’s psychological. You don’t notice the wobble so much when you are there and can see the singer . Nyland’s wobble is less than Stemme’s and indeed on tonight s performance Schager’s . These spinto singers are being asked to to sing high and loud over a large orchestra - as they get older some wobble is more or less inevitable. It’s nothing compared to Gwyneth Jones believe me …
Nyland is nailing high note after high note singing live and loud full voice in an opera house - not in an recording studio with a £3,000 Neumann mic a foot in front of her. A superb performance.
The orchestra under Bychcov are also playing magnificently.

[Belgrove]

Having attended Bayreuth for the first time this year (admittedly not Tristan, but rather the Ring), the first impression (after being astonished by the miracle of the acoustic), is that the orchestra is not loud and the singers do not seem to have to work hard to overcome it. It is a perfect blending of voice and orchestra. The mic placing in this relay produces only an approximation of what one experiences in the auditorium.