BILL VIOLA'S VIDEO VISIONS

摘要

Video artist Bill Viola's astounding and rarely seen visual accompaniment to Wagner's operatic love story Tristan und Isolde is on display once again. From Jan. 29 to Feb. 23, the Canadian Opera Company (COC) is staging director Peter Sellars' version of 'Tristan, und Isolde—in which Viola's sweeping slow-motion videos of water, fire and people are as integral to the action as the singers and music. Because of its ambitious technological requirements, Sellars' version has only been fully staged by Opera nation- al de Paris at Bastille, later travelling to Kobe and Tokyo, Japan.