Bill Viola: Love/Death - The Tristan Project

by Bill Viola, Peter Sellars, Esa-Pekka Salonen, et al.

In 2004, the opera scene was taken by storm by the ground-breaking production of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde in Los Angeles.

This book offers a behind-the-scenes look at how the visionary American artist Bill Viola created four hours of video as a visual complement to this profound psychological drama. It also tells the story of its commissioning by the then Paris Opera director Gerard Mortier, who pushed the boundaries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300270178
• ISBN13: 9780300270174
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Mercatorfonds
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.2" x 11.4"