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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Opera

Glyndebourne Festival

Production Date: 05/08/2007

Duration240 Min

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When John Christie launched his opera festival at Glyndebourne in the English countryside in the mid-1930s, it was always his dream to stage Wagner. Seven decades later, the dream came to fruition with Nikolaus Lehnhoff's visionary staging of Tristan und Isolde: an instant classic by a legend among directors, setting Wagner's doomed lovers in a luminous abstract world inspired by the postwar Bayreuth tradition. This performance dates from its first revival, in 2007. Nina Stemme, René Pape, Katarina Karnéus and Robert Gambill head a world-beating cast, and conductor Jiří Bělohlávek draws sounds of ravishing beauty from an audibly-inspired London Philharmonic Orchestra.

Soloists
Nina Stemme (Soprano), Katarina Karnéus (Mezzo-Soprano), Robert Gambill (Tenor), Stephen Gadd (Bass), Bo Skovhus (Baritone), René Pape (Bass), Timothy Robinson (Tenor), Richard Mosley-Evans (Bass)
Ensembles
London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Glyndebourne Chorus
Conductor
Jiří Bělohlávek