Stars In Their Eyes: Matthew Rye is impressed by a new production of ‘Tristan und Isolde’ in Mannheim that cements the Wagnerian credentials of its conductor

For her new production in Mannheim, postponed from the summer of 2020, Luise Kautz attempts – if her explanation in the programme is to be interpreted correctly – to explore the contradictions between the 19th-century concept of Romantic love amid which the work was conceived and the tradition of courtly love from which the original tale emerged.