Daniel Barenboim, the 66-year-old conductor of many nationalities will settle into the orchestra pit at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday, November 28 for his first public appearance conducting Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
To help you digest your turkey leftovers and soothe your Black Friday consumer angst, you can still find *plenty-o-tix*. WTF NYC? It's the Thanxgiving weekend, ok, and it's not the cool new Chereau staging we saw last year in Milan, but is everybody so stuffed with turkey buttz and gizzard gravy that they have more important things to do than witness Barenboim's Metropolitan premiere?
Also making their premieres are Swedish soprano Katarina Dalayman and hard-of-hearing German heldentenor Peter Seiffert, singing the title roles but apparently this gave NYC the lawls. René Pape, he of all things awesome will sing King Marke, reprising the role which he sang in the inaugural 1999 Dieter Dorn production.
We peeked on the page for la prima, and it looks like NYC has other plans tomorrow night...
We've got a nice assortment of production photos just for you!
(Above: Peter Seiffert as Tristan, Katarina Dalayman as Isolde, and Michelle DeYoung as Brangäne)
(Above: Seiffert as Tristan, Katarina Dalayman as Isolde)
**click on the link below for a handful of more shots!!**
(Above: German heldentenor Peter Seiffert as Tristan, Swedish soprano
Katarina Dalayman as Isolde, and Michelle DeYoung as Brangäne)
(Above: German heldentenor Peter Seiffert as Tristan, and Swedish soprano Katarina Dalayman as Isolde)
(Above: Swedish soprano Katarina Dalayman as Isolde)
(Above: Daniel Barenboim)
(Above: Daniel Barenboim)
(Above: Daniel Barenboim with Itzhak Perlman and his wife)