Tristan und Isolde

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 1, 2009

Original language

English

Spoken languages

german

Production

Opus Arte,Bayreuther Festspiele,Opus Arte, Bayreuther Festspiele

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2247006