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Tristan und Isolde – 2. Act

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Richard Wagner

Tristan and Isolde – two names that are inseparable, their hearts and fates inextricably linked. Two absolute emotional extremists who live out their love with a radicality that leaves no room for other people and can only find fulfilment in the utter abandon of death.

Richard Wagner composed ‘Tristan und Isolde’ during a twelve-year creative break from work on the ‘Ring des Nibelungen’ as a creative way of processing his love for the married Mathilde Wesendonck and his intellectual fascination with Arthur Schopenhauer and Buddhism. However, Wagner was also notorious for his “genius for borrowing” and was in urgent need of a financial success. ‘Tristan’ would not deliver this: “this rat king of unresolved, self-exhausting sequences of notes” seemed too bold “to the baffled listeners” (German Musician’s Newspaper 1860). For a long time the work was considered unperformable because of the enormous demands that it made of both the orchestra and the soloists – now it is impossible to imagine an operatic repertoire that does not include Wagner’s landmark score.

After the bravura ‘Ring am Rhein,’ another exclusive Wagner experience awaits at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in December: on three successive evenings we will present ‘Tristan und Isolde’ in a production by Dorian Dreher and conducted by Music Director Axel Kober with a world class ensemble led by Kammersängerin Linda Watson, tenor Michael Weinius and Kammersänger Hans-Peter König. The experienced conductor and composer Eberhard Kloke will create an intimate arrangement of the ‘Tristan’ score with the orchestra as the protagonist in both musical and spatial terms.

Language
In deutscher Sprache mit Übertiteln
Duration
Dauer: ca. 1 ¼ Stunden, keine Pause
to the schedule

Cast

Axel Kober
Dorian Dreher
Heike Scheele
Carmen Kovacs
Daniel Frank
Linda Watson
Katarzyna Kuncio
Bogdan Baciu
Hans-Peter König
Dmitri Vargin
Duisburger Philharmoniker

Work info

Adapted for the Deutsche Oper am Rhein by Eberhard Kloke

Opera in Three Acts (1865)
Libretto by the composer, after the verse romance ‘Tristan’ by Gottfried von Straßburg

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