Finally! The world has been clamoring for Lise Davidsen’s Isolde since what feels like forever. From scalding rages in Act One to ecstasies in the second-act Love Duet and on to the “Liebestod” nirvana that rings down the final curtain, the part demands all the voice and imagination a soprano can muster. Since her Metropolitan Opera debut as Lisa with an S in the 2019 revival of Tchaikovsky’s The Queen of Spades, Davidsen has regaled local audiences with Richard Strauss (Ariadne, Chrysothemis, the Marschallin), lighter Wagner (Eva), and Beethoven’s Fidelio, plus Verdi (Leonora in La Forza del Destino) and Tosca, Puccini’s diva of divas. That’s eight roles, and like sports fans everywhere, the opera-house variety obsesses over stats. No, the Met’s new production this year won’t mark Davidsen’s role debut as the trophy princess, as we were once promised. Instead, she braved that rite of passage in January in the Spanish Wagner mecca of Barcelona, whose Teatro del Liceu seats about 2,300, a good 1,500 fewer than the Met. But it’s not as if Davidsen needed to worry about her sound filling the house. More likely, it was Isolde’s soul she was trying on for size. And while few had a kind word to say about Barcelona native Bárbara Lluch’s less-is-less production, Davidsen had the house at her feet. Expect more of the same at Lincoln Center, where her soul-sick Tristan is Michael Spyres, an artist-scholar of rare versatility. Some wonder how his supple but human-scale “baritenor” will stand up against Davidsen’s clarion instrument, but we’re talking about artists here, not prizefighters; let’s trust them to find their way. The production is by Yuval Sharon, making his Met debut with a contract for the company’s next “Ring” cycle (starring Davidsen’s Brünnhilde) already in his pocket. In execution, Sharon’s shows are wildly uneven; his apparent intent, quite consistently, is to collapse timelessness into the here and now. In Es (for Esmeralda) Devlin, he has a designer who works on an appropriately galactic scale. Ekaterina Gubanova and Tomasz Konieczny portray the lovers’ slavishly devoted confidants. Ryan Speedo Green is King Marke, the liege lord they all betray. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts. Hot tip: On March 31, Davidsen leads a session in the Juilliard School’s Leontyne Price Master Class Series , which will stream in real time only. —Matthew Gurewitsch