Tristan und Isolde

Richard Wagner

Tristan und Isolde

new production

Mar 9 - Apr 2

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After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

The Met gratefully acknowledges the support of William N. Buffett and Susan E. Kennedy and the Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa

Additional support from Dr. Jack A. Roth and Dr. Elizabeth A. Grimm

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Sung In

German

Met Titles In

  • English
  • German
  • Spanish

Estimated Run Time

4 hrs 50 mins

  • House Opens

  • Act I

    85 mins

  • Intermission

    30 mins

  • Act II

    65 mins

  • Intermission

    30 mins

  • Act III

    80 mins

  • Opera Ends

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Creators

Richard Wagner (1813–83) was the controversial creator of music-drama masterpieces that stand at the center of today’s operatic repertory. An artistic revolutionary who reimagined every supposition about theater, Wagner insisted that words and music were equals in his works. This approach led to the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk, or “total work of art,” combining music, poetry, architecture, painting, and other disciplines, a notion that has had an impact on creative fields far beyond opera.

Yuval Sharon

Production

Yuval Sharon

Es Devlin

Set Designer

Es Devlin

Clint Ramos

Costume Designer

Clint Ramos

John Torres

Lighting Designer

John Torres

Ruth Hogben

Projection Designer

Ruth Hogben

Annie-B Parson

Choreographer

Annie-B Parson

Headshot of Richard Wagner

Composer

Richard Wagner

Music

Volumes have been written about the influential score of Tristan und Isolde. The music is built on the idea of a great yearning, irresistible and self-perpetuating, that cannot be fulfilled in this life. The prelude sweeps the listener into an ecstatic yet tortuous world of longing, and the vocal parts are of unique stature. The opera culminates in Isolde’s famous final aria, “Mild und leise,” with a final octave leap that concludes this unique musical-dramatic journey.

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