“That Damned Baby”: The New Ending To The Met’s “Tristan And Isolde” And What It Says About America

During the opera’s final minutes, rather than simply having the titular lovers embrace death, director Yuval Sharon has Isolde birth a child. Thus, writes Philip Kennicott, “one of the darkest and most disturbing operas in the canon … is given a ray of light, almost a happy ending.” – The Washington Post (MSN)

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