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Tristan und Isolde (1999)

Tristan und Isolde (1999)

Drama Music
Release Date: 1999, December 18
Directors: Brian Large
Countries: United States of America
Production: Unitel
Cast: Brian Davis, René Pape, Mark Schowalter, James Courtney, Anthony Dean Griffey, Hans-Joachim Ketelsen, Jane Eaglen, Ben Heppner, Katarina Dalayman

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.

Keywords:

opera the metropolitan opera