Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Ben HeppnerTristan
- Jane EaglenIsolde
- Katarina DalaymanBrangäne
- Hans-Joachim KetelsenKurwenal
- René PapeKing Marke
- James LevineSelf - Conductor
- Brian DavisMelot
- Anthony Dean GriffeyA Sailor's Voice
- Mark SchowalterA Sheperd
- James CourtneySteersman
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