Mountain Cinema

In the Doctorow Center for Art, 7971 Main Street, Hunter, NY

Dates: Saturday, January 26 @ 7:30pm
Tickets: $20
Reservations: 518 263 4702

Emerging Pictures, in an exclusive American collaboration with RAI Trade, will bring Operas from the La Scala opera house to digital cinemas. The operas were recorded live in gorgeous HDTV format with Dolby Digital sound.

Tristan und Isolde is a project that has been conceived as the inseparable union of the title with the conductor, the director and the singers. Tristan is the project that Daniel Barenboim, one of the greatest Wagnerian maestros, had been dreaming of staging with Patrice Chéreau for 25 years, soon after the director left one of the most memorable marks in the story of staging on the Ring. A quarter of a century has gone by since the Wagner of Bayreuth (1976-1980), a period of time that Chéreau has judged long enough to put distance between him and that Tetralogy (conducted by Boulez) and to dispel doubts: the dream of two excellent Wagnerians is coming true today at La Scala. Particularly worth noting in the cast are Ian Storey, Waltraud Meier, Michelle De Young, Gerd Grokowski, Matti Salminen and Will Hartmann.