{"product_id":"birth-and-transfiguration-katherine-syer-admires-a-spectacular-isolde-in-new-york","title":"Birth and Transfiguration: Katherine Syer admires a spectacular Isolde in New York","description":"\u003cp\u003eReview of \u003cem\u003eTristan und Isolde\u003c\/em\u003e, directed Sharon, conducted Nézet-Séguin, New York Met, 2026. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/thewagnerjournal.co.uk\/products\/the-wagner-journal-july-2026-volume-20-number-2?utm_source=copyToPasteBoard\u0026amp;utm_medium=product-links\u0026amp;utm_content=web\"\u003eJuly 2026, Volume 20, Number 2\u003c\/a\u003e, 73–7.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eYuval Sharon recently described the score of \u003cem\u003eTristan und Isolde\u003c\/em\u003e as akin to navigating perpetual quicksand – you are never on sure footing – before pivoting to another analogy the director favours: it is also like surfing – waiting for waves, knowing a big one is coming. For his production at the Metropolitan Opera, Sharon has endeavoured to maintain structural tension throughout, with the visual language always partly concrete (a table downstage, recognisable rituals) and partly abstract (a tunnel\/acting area suspended above the stage floor, the drifting geometry of a split set).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Wagner Journal","offers":[{"title":"Individual","offer_id":54364524773718,"sku":null,"price":2.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"Institution","offer_id":54364524806486,"sku":null,"price":4.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/thewagnerjournal.co.uk\/products\/birth-and-transfiguration-katherine-syer-admires-a-spectacular-isolde-in-new-york","provider":"The Wagner Journal","version":"1.0","type":"link"}