IN the audacity of its programming, Donald Runnicles's launch concert on Thursday night to his new season with the BBC SSO is unmatched.
Opening a season with a concert performance of an opera is not new. But to open a season with the first act of Wagner's music drama, Tristan Und Isolde, with acts Two and Three to follow at intervals, is a challenging stroke of planning. Will they remotely cohere, with Act Two following in November while the great climax of Act Three sits in the wings for five months? And does it matter?
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