Release Date: 1999-12-18
Overview: 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.
Rating: 10 / 10
Ben Heppner
as Tristan
Jane Eaglen
as Isolde
Katarina Dalayman
as Brangäne
Hans-Joachim Ketelsen
as Kurwenal
René Pape
as King Marke
Brian Large - Director
Richard Wagner - Original Music Composer
James Levine - Conductor
Victoria Warivonchik - Associate Producer
Magda Szayer - Hairstylist
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