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Tristan und Isolde

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.

Top Cast

  • Robert Dean Smith

    Robert Dean Smith

    Tristan

  • Iréne Theorin

    Iréne Theorin

    Isolde

  • Michelle Breedt

    Michelle Breedt

    Brangäne

  • Robert Holl

    Robert Holl

    King Marke

  • Jukka Rasilainen

    Jukka Rasilainen

    Kurwenal

  • Ralf Lukas

    Ralf Lukas

    Melot

  • Clemens Bieber

    Clemens Bieber

    A young sailor

  • Arnold Bezuyen

    Arnold Bezuyen

    A shepherd

  • Martin Snell

    Martin Snell

    A steersman

Overview

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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