TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

In the organizer's words:

Although Tristan once killed her fiancé, the Irish king's daughter Isolde saved his life and fell in love with the nephew of the hostile King of Cornwall. Isolde is now to become the wife of his uncle, King Marke. The love she shares with Tristan is doomed to fail. However, she breaks all boundaries and allows neither conventions nor moral standards to stop her. But the legitimate living out of love remains a utopia and is condemned by nature to be finally fulfilled only in death. With Tristan and Isolde (premiered at the Royal Court and National Theatre in Munich in 1865), Richard Wagner created a masterpiece of German Romanticism and at the same time one of the cornerstones of modern music.

Based on the verse novel Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg
In German with German surtitles

Intermission buffet during the performance

DURATION OF PERFORMANCE
approx. 5 hours and 15 minutes, two intermissions