Release Date

01 Aug, 2009

Runtime

04:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Tristan und Isolde

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Actors

Robert Dean Smith

Iréne Theorin

Michelle Breedt

Robert Holl

Jukka Rasilainen

Ralf Lukas

Clemens Bieber

Arnold Bezuyen

Martin Snell

Peter Schneider

Crew

Richard Wagner

Michael Beyer

Christoph Marthaler