When I told friends that the Tristan und Isolde I was going to attend was an unstaged concert performance, they all made the same joke: "how will you be able to tell?" It is true that Tristan on the stage is always something of a static spectacle, but even so, I was apprehensive about how I would survive five hours in a concert hall without a few costumes and props to distract me.
I needn't have worried. Although of course quite a bit was missing, and I wouldn't have recommended the evening to one who had never encountered the work before, the quality of the performance was such that I felt neither bored nor confused. (The exception was, perhaps, the love duet in Act 2, but that's simply Wagner's fault; I don't think I could sit through that without squirming in any production.)
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