Giving Oneself to the Love
“Tristan + Isolde”
Semperoper Ballet
Semperoper
Dresden, Germany
January 17, 2016
by Ilona Landgraf
Copyright © 2016 by Ilona Landgraf
How many performances exist in which the energy already rises with the first tunes of the prelude? Which make one feel that something substantial is about to happen? David Dawson’s “Tristan + Isolde” danced by the Semperoper Ballet Dresden is such a ballet. About one year after its premiere the company revived the piece for three performances in January. Two more are scheduled for June. The car trip to Dresden is long and no fun on wintery highways, yet watching the piece again compensated for the effort. Having ripened during the last year it now is unfolding its whole power. (more…)