Tristan und Isolde
01/08/2009
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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Robert Dean Smith
as Tristan
Iréne Theorin
as Isolde
Michelle Breedt
as Brangäne
Robert Holl
as King Marke
Jukka Rasilainen
as Kurwenal
Ralf Lukas
as Melot
Clemens Bieber
as A young sailor
Arnold Bezuyen
as A shepherd
Martin Snell
as A steersman
Peter Schneider
as Himself - Musikalische Leitung
