Tristan und Isolde

12/18/1999

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3hrs 58min

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Music

,Drama

STORY

Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit romance between a Breton nobleman and the Irish princess betrothed to his uncle and king. The composer’s larger-than-life sensibilities are on full display throughout the score: Along with intoxicating orchestral music that surges in tandem with the couple’s burgeoning passion and a chord left symbolically unresolved until the last moments of the opera, the opera also features one of the repertory’s most soaring and ecstatic final climaxes, as Isolde surrenders to a love so powerful that she transcends life itself.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Ben Heppner
  • Jane Eaglen
  • Katarina Dalayman
  • Hans-Joachim Ketelsen
  • René Pape

    Directors

  • Brian Large
  • Dieter Dorn

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Unitel

    Production Countries

  • United States of America

LANGUAGES

  • German