Tristan und Isolde

Production de 2018 - Peter Sellars

• Conductor

  Gustavo Dudamel

• Music

  Richard Wagner
  (1813 - 1883)

• Libretto

  Richard Wagner

• Director

  Peter Sellars

• Video

  Bill Viola

• Direct video editing/ mixing

  Alex MacInnis

• Executive producer (video)

  Kia Perov

• Costume design

  Martin Pakledinaz

• Lighting design

  James F. Ingalls

• Chorus master

  Alessandro Di Stefano

Tristan und Isolde is an immense operatic poem, a song of love and death inspired by the medieval legend of Tristan and Iseult and the passion that Richard Wagner nurtured for Mathilde, the wife of his rich Zurich patron, Otto Wesendonck. In musical terms, the opera marks a turning point in Wagner’s works and indeed in the history of Western music for its audacious harmonies and the way in which the composer overlays different rhythms, thus creating a languishing and endlessly prolonged tension. In this extraordinary production, Peter Sellars calms the heaving emotions of the two protagonists in a setting stripped of all earthly considerations. Detached from the stage, suspended like an altarpiece, Bill Viola’s videos portray the initiatory quest of the lovers to attain their nirvana. The association of these two major artists gives life to a unique and total work of art.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
En collaboration avec la Los Angeles Philharmonic Association et le Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Tristan und Isolde

Production de 2018 - Peter Sellars

• Isolde

  Mary Elizabeth Williams

• Tristan

  Michael Weinius

• Brangäne

  Okka von der Damerau

• Kurwenal

  Ryan Speedo Green

• König Marke

  Eric Owens

• Melot

  Neal Cooper

• Ein Hirt, ein Seeman

  Maciej Kwaśnikowski

• Ein Steuermann

  Tomasz Kumiega

• Corps terrestre

  Jeff Mills

• Lisa Rhoden

• Corps célestes

  John Hay

• Sarah Steben