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Will Isolde & Tristan make it all the way to King Marks Cornwall in this Salzburg skeleton ship?

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Will Isolde & Tristan make it all the way to King Marks Cornwall in this Salzburg skeleton ship?

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Photo: Ruth Walz/Salzburg Festival 2000. As the operas of Richard Wagner remain favorites with at least a cultivated, discriminating public, attention-hungry stage-directors and designersat least in Central Europecontinue ever more desperately to search for unusual new ways to visualize them. The recent Munich Opera production of Tristan und Isolde presented the doomed lovers on a sleek white modern cruise-ship. Not quite the Good Ship Lollypop, but almost Tristan, wearing an armor breast-plate, shaved with a razor in the captain’s cabin. Out on the poop-deck, Isolde and Brangne relaxed in deck-chairs, sipping exotic drinks with tiny parasols in them. For the new Salzburg Festival production, designer Eduardo Arroyo, in a Deconstructivist mode, stripped the ship down to its bare outlines. It was represented with gleaming silvery rods, suggesting the structure of the vessel, but revealing all who sailed in it in silhouette. Not to overlook the outlines of a life-boat and an anchor. Walt

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