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In Jerusalem in 2001, he provoked controversy by conducting the Prelude to the opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner at the Israel Festival.

He’s set to make his debut with the company next season with a new production of “Tristan und Isolde.”

He accepted the Metropolitan Opera’s invitation to direct the upcoming Wagner productions of “Tristan und Isolde” and the “Ring” cycle.

Written in 1946 by a young French composer released from a Nazi prison camp, the hourlong song cycle for very dramatic soprano and piano reimagines Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde as exotic Peruvian lovers.

He will devote more time to opera — Wagner’s “Parsifal” in concert at the Paris Philharmonie and a staged “Tristan und Isolde” in Seoul are planned — and hopes to lead more Bruckner.