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Tristan und Isolde
Opéra Bastille
18h
Dress Cocktail attire
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.
Tristan und Isolde
Production de 2018 - Peter Sellars
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Music
Richard Wagner
(1813 - 1883) -
ConductorGustavo Dudamel
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Libretto
Richard Wagner
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Director
Peter Sellars
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Video
Bill Viola
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Direct video editing/ mixing
Alex MacInnis
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Executive producer (video)
Kia Perov
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Costume design
Martin Pakledinaz
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Lighting design
James F. Ingalls
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Chorus master
Alessandro Di Stefano
Cast
Williams
Isolde
Weinius
Tristan
Damerau
Brangäne
Green
Kurwenal
Owens
König Marke
Cooper
Melot
Kwaśnikowski
Ein Hirt, ein Seeman
Kumiega
Ein Steuermann
Mills
Corps terrestre
Rhoden
Hay
Corps célestes
Steben
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