Sorry but this performance of Tristan was terrible, it feels like the conductor hasn’t even attempted to listen to the great recordings of it. Virtually non-existent brass, and she played Wagner like a Hanon exercise.
And I don’t understand how with all the donations they get, how they don’t have funds to honor the score. They used a reduced orchestra. The score calls for two harps, there was only one, and every section was much too small for a Wagnerian orchestra. I could barely even hear the orchestra. Any European opera house would laugh at this production.
Sorry but this performance of Tristan was terrible, it feels like the conductor hasn’t even attempted to listen to the great recordings of it. Virtually non-existent brass, and she played Wagner like a Hanon exercise.
And I don’t understand how with all the donations they get, how they don’t have funds to honor the score. They used a reduced orchestra. The score calls for two harps, there was only one, and every section was much too small for a Wagnerian orchestra. I could barely even hear the orchestra. Any European opera house would laugh at this production.
You need to stop this. It’s juvenile.