Tristan und Isolde
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Since the 1990s, Christoph Marthaler and his congenial stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock have caused a sensation with highly musical and atmospheric productions of plays and operas. It was only a matter of time, then, before this directing team was also invited to the Bayreuth Festival. Marthaler's style of radical deceleration proved ideally suited to Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in this production – with Viebrock's sober yet poetic sets – unveiled in 2005. In the 2009 revival documented here, Robert Dean Smith and Iréne Theorin were joined in the title roles by Robert Holl, one of the great basses of his generation, who sang the role of King Marke.
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Robert Dean Smith
Tristan
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Richard Strauss - Ariadne Auf Naxos
The Met - Tristan und Isolde
Iréne Theorin
Isolde
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Turandot - Liceu
Wagner: Götterdämmerung - Teatro alla Scala
Michelle Breedt
Brangäne
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Tannhäuser
Cherubin
Robert Holl
King Marke
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Bach: St. John Passion
Jukka Rasilainen
Kurwenal
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Lohengrin
Kaija Saariaho: Innocence
Ralf Lukas
Melot
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Moses und Aron - Opéra National de Paris
Wagner: Götterdämmerung
Clemens Bieber
A young sailor
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Tristan und Isolde
Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen
Arnold Bezuyen
A shepherd
Also in
Die Zauberflöte für Kinder
Boris Godunov - NNT Tokyo
Martin Snell
A steersman
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Der Rosenkavalier - Bayerische Staatsoper
Die Teufel von Loudun - Bayerische Staatsoper
Peter Schneider
Himself - Musikalische Leitung
Michael Beyer Director · Christoph Marthaler Director Richard Wagner Writer
First release August 1, 2009 · Production Bayreuther Festspiele
Production
Opus Arte
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Bayreuther Festspiele
Production
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
United Kingdom · August 1, 2009
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
Japan
August 14, 2010 · Digital
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