The last time Tristan und Isolde was seen in Lille was in March 1944. In those days, the Lille opera house had been renamed "Deutsches Theater" by the German occupiers, and the musical direction of this wartime Tristan lay with Hendrik Diels, then artistic director of the Antwerp Ope…
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