Tristan und Isolde

Tristan und Isolde — Plot

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.

• Release date
• December 18, 1999
• Runtime
• 238 min
• Genres
• Music, Drama
• Director
• Brian Large

Tristan und Isolde — Cast

Ben Heppner Tristan Jane Eaglen Isolde Hans-Joachim Ketelsen Kurwenal Katarina Dalayman Brangäne René Pape King Marke

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Brian Davis Melot

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Anthony Dean Griffey A Sailor's Voice Mark Schowalter A Sheperd