Tristan und Isolde

10.0
  • Genre: MusicDrama
  • Run time: 238 min
  • Premiere: 1999. December 18.

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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Art

Dieter Dorn

Production Design

Jürgen Rose

Set Designer

James Levine

Art Direction

Costume & Make-Up

Magda Szayer

Hairstylist

Jürgen Rose

Costume Designer

William Malloy

Wardrobe Supervisor

Sylvia Nolan

Costume Designer

Victor Callegari

Makeup Artist

Crew

Ron Washburn

Technical Supervisor

Directing

Brian Large

Director

Lighting

Max Keller

Lighting Design

Production

Victoria Warivonchik

Associate Producer

Susan Erben

Producer

Joseph Volpe

General Manager

Sound

Richard Wagner

Original Music Composer

James Levine

Conductor

Jay David Saks

Music Producer

Bill King

Sound Supervisor