Release Date

18 Dec, 1999

Runtime

03:58: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit romance between a Breton nobleman and the Irish princess betrothed to his uncle and king. The composer’s larger-than-life sensibilities are on full display throughout the score: Along with intoxicating orchestral music that surges in tandem with the couple’s burgeoning passion and a chord left symbolically unresolved until the last moments of the opera, the opera also features one of the repertory’s most soaring and ecstatic final climaxes, as Isolde surrenders to a love so powerful that she transcends life itself.

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Actors

Ben Heppner

Jane Eaglen

Katarina Dalayman

Hans-Joachim Ketelsen

René Pape

James Levine

Brian Davis

Anthony Dean Griffey

Mark Schowalter

James Courtney

MET Orchestra

Crew

Brian Large

Richard Wagner

James Levine

Dieter Dorn

Jürgen Rose

Jürgen Rose

Max Keller

Hans-Joachim Ruckhäberle

Joseph Volpe

James Levine

Magda Szayer

Victor Callegari

William Malloy

Sylvia Nolan