Folge 16: Tristan in New York: An Interior Circuit of Night

This episode outlines a meditative urban journey through New York City, using Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde as a thematic guide for April. The itinerary prioritizes interiority and stillness over traditional movement, directing participants to locations like the Rose Main Reading Room and The Met Cloisters to mirror the music's sense of suspended time. By pairing specific operatic scenes with shadowed, quiet spaces, the guide encourages a dissolution of identity and a rejection of daylight productivity.

Supplemental resources further explore the unresolved harmonies and philosophical longing central to the experience. Ultimately, the program serves as a transition from the absolute inwardness of the night toward a more structured, communal engagement with the city in the following month.

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