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The National Theatre, home of the Bayerische Staatsoper is definitely a thing of beauty – five
circles, all faux-marble columns and Grecian friezes,
Angels, reds, blues and ivory, a huge central
chandelier, electric candles, chairs with perfect
sightlines rather than ‘seats’. Spotlessly clean
– camp, glorious and very un- Germanic! Yet it
seemed so very much smaller than my only previous
visit in 1980 – memory as we know plays funny
tricks – that time also for Tristan in I guess what could have been
the previous production to the current one. All
I remember from that was a seemingly endless field
of poppies that Tristan negotiated on his way
to Isolde at the start of Act II. © Jim Pritchard Back to the Top Back to the Index Page |
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