by Maxime Ohayon Email

Passionate about Wagner’s Opera?
Want to hear “Liebestod – Love Death”?

The Wagner Society of Santa Fe invites you to attend its inaugural program focusing on Tristan and Isolde. It will feature soprano Jeanne-Michѐle Charbonnet and Joseph Illick on the piano


Tristan & Isolde
Saturday, January 28, 2012, 4:00 pm
United Church of Santa Fe on Arroyo Chamiso

Joseph Illick will tell the story of Tristan and Isolde, play some of the most rapturous, sensual, transcendent love music ever written, and talk about the life and music of Wagner. Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet has sung leading soprano roles all over the world. She has appeared on the stages of Barcelona, Paris, Madrid, Frankfurt, Bordeaux, Berlin, Venice, Bregenz, Florence, Geneva, Naples, Oslo, Strasbourg, Cologne, Nantes, Marseilles, Toulouse, Santiago, and Dallas.


The event is co-presented by the Santa Fe Concert Association as part of its “Notes on Music” series.
Joe Illick is the artistic and executive director of the Concert Association.

Tickets ($25/$12.50 for students) to the performance and a meet-the-artists reception are now on sale at the Concert Association, Ticketssantafe.org, and the Lensic Box Office - (505) 988-1234.

For information about The Wagner Society of Santa Fe: wagnersocietyofsantafe@gmail.com.

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Tristan & Isolde

... In Tristan und Isolde, the text and its vehicle, the human voice, are merely parts of a great symphonic texture, in which the lovers submerge themselves and then transcend. For them, this is perfect love: the extinction of selfishness, the disappearance of self, total identification with each other….

Joseph Illick

Joe Illick is Music Director and Principal Conductor of Fort Worth Opera, a post which he has held since 2002. Mr Illick has been Executive and Artistic Director of the Santa Fe Concert Association since May 2008.

Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet

Having commenced her career in Italian opera, Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet has more recently become recognised as a leading force in the German and contemporary music repertoire.