Is ‘Tristan’ the hardest opera to stage? This director thinks so, and signed on at the Met

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to ...
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As Des Moines Metro Opera grew, its ambitions extended beyond its small-town Iowa origin

Part of a series on the labor practices of the Des Moines Metro Opera. A world-renowned opera in a small town like Indianola is the kind of thing that starts with an idiosyncratic, indefatigable ...