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Between the artist Bill Viola and Richard Wagner, a love in perpetuity

2023-01-23T21:44:15.914Z


EXCLUSIVE - The American video master has been associated with the great German composer since 2005 through Tristan and Isolde. His wife and studio director, Kira Perov, reveals the genesis of this pioneering work.


Tristan and Isolde

, twenty years later.

A revolutionary project launched in 2003. A minimalist staging by Peter Sellars from 2005, a pioneer in his use of video, which he reinterprets to the millimeter at the Opéra Bastille, until February 4.

The mystical creations of Bill Viola always occupy a central place, both decor and symbolic evocation of the action, in symbiosis with the music of Wagner.

An opera on mad love in a legendary Cornwall (1865), music and libretto by Richard Wagner (1813-1883), who revolutionized the history of music with his harmonic audacity, a growing and delayed tension in the image of the devouring desire of the two lovers with a tragic destiny.

Gustavo Dudamel conducts

Tristan and Isolde for the first time

in full in stage version, keystone of the lyrical repertoire, in a staging that has become cult.

Born in 1951 in Queens, New York, Bill Viola has often recounted the accident of his childhood where he escaped drowning...

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