Tristan und Isolde
7.5
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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Ben Heppner
Tristan
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Jane Eaglen
Isolde
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Hans-Joachim Ketelsen
Kurwenal
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Katarina Dalayman
Brangäne
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René Pape
King Marke
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Brian Davis
Melot
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Anthony Dean Griffey
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Mark Schowalter
A Sheperd
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The Metropolitan Opera: The Merry Widow
Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
James Courtney
Steersman
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James Levine
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MET Orchestra
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Brian Large Director · Richard Wagner Writer Dieter Dorn Production designer
United States release December 18, 1999 · Produced in United States · Production The Metropolitan Opera
Production
Unitel
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The Metropolitan Opera
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United States
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
United States · December 18, 1999
Theatrical
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