“Tristan” Curse Returns
Earlier this year, it took five performances of the Metropolitan Opera’s run of “Tristan und Isolde” before the scheduled lead singers, Ben Heppner and Deborah Voigt, got together onstage. (Illnesses were especially crippling to Heppner.) Well, the Wagner curse is at it again: the Met’s current run of “Tristan” is also hampered by hardship. First it was tenor Peter Seiffert, who missed two performances. Now, it’s Katarina Dalayman, who is indisposed and will not sing tomorrow night. In her stead, the Met is flying over from Munich (where the opera had its premiere in 1865) the veteran Wagner singer Waltraud Meier (pictured).
