Drama at the Met

Chills and fever, check. Abscesses in the pelvis, check. Stomach upset, requiring Isolde to run offstage during the scene: check. Tristan falling into the prompter's box, check. Replacing understudies by sub-understudies, check. Wagner's operas are supposed to be dramatic, but this isn't what he had in mind.

h/t Podium Speak.

UPDATE: The New Yorker article Tristan and Two Isoldes by Alex Ross on the same topic: "Fans got their money's worth: disaster and triumph in one night."