Philharmonia Orchestra
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Gentleman of the Schweizer Kammerchor
(chorus master Norbert Balatsch)
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
conductor
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Bill Viola
video design
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Peter Sellars
stage director
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Gary Lehman
Tristan
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Matthew Best
King Marke
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Violeta Urmana
Isolde
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Jukka Rasilainen
Kurwenal
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Stephen Gadd
Melot
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Anne Sofie von Otter
Brangäne
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Joshua Ellicott
Young Shepherd/A Sailor
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Darren Jeffery
A steersman
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
“Tristan und Isolde”. Semi-staged performance with videos by Bill Viola, directed by Peter Sellars
This opera is inexhaustible and will never be entirely realized,” says Peter Sellars about “Tristan und Isolde.” Even so, he has attempted his own interpretation in a collaboration with video artist Bill Viola. “He’s comparable to Michelangelo or Leonardo da Vinci,” according to Sellars. “His moving images have an obsessive, dark quality that evokes higher levels of awareness.” The impossibility of love, which Wagner’s searing music conjures so painfully, has an unforeseen counterpart on the stage: “The concert hall is transformed into a temple of purification. The lovers are united as heavenly forms of light,” wrote the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.”
Co-Production with the Philharmonia Orchestra and the Konzerthaus Dortmund | Co-Production with the Southbank Centre London and the Symphony Hall Birmingham
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