On November 28 the Berlin State Opera conductor and renowned pianist takes the reins at the Met for Wagner’s master opus “Tristan und Isolde.” “Tristan is not an opera about love. It is an opera about death. The fear of death and the looking for death as the only possible way: this is the only locomotive, the motor of the opera,” he said before a rehearsal Tuesday. “He who spends his life without thinking about death misses out one of the most forceful dimensions of humanity,” Barenboim said.

The maestro is bringing his own Berlin cast to the opera, which comes in the 125th anniversary year of the Met.

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