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Conductor

Alejo Pérez

Stage director

Philippe Grandrieux

Singer

Tenor

Roy Cornelius Smith

Tristan

Choreographer

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An D'Huys

Chorus master

Jan Schweiger

Dramaturge

Tobias Staab

Katherina Lindekens

Music Dramaturgy

Piet De Volder

Soprano

Carla Filipcic

Isolde

Bass

Albert Dohmen

King Mark

Mezzo-soprano

Dshamilja Kaiser

Brangaene

Baritone

Vincenzo Neri

Kurwenal

Mark Ellis Gough

Melot

Neal Cooper

Video designer

Lighting designer

Dancers

Natalie Remadi

Vilma Pitrinaite

Elena Vergeti

Set designer

Bjorn Hofman

Hugo Kampschreur

Voice of a young sailor

A shepherd

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

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Choeur Opéra Vlaanderen

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Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

German

Tristan und Isolde -  (Tristan and Isolde)

Antwerp

Belgium

Opera Antwerp

Ghent

Opera Gent (Operagebouw)

Tristan und Isolde Wagner,Richard

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Tristan and Isolde

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A ship is approaching the Cornwall coast. On board: a melancholic knight and an indomitable princess. Tristan is bringing Isolde to the old King Marke, whom she is to marry. I'd rather die, she thinks – but the death potion in which she seeks escape turns out to be a love potion. Even before they go ashore, Tristan and Isolde are condemned to be one another's prisoners. Their forbidden love is so all-consuming that it can only result in an ecstatic death. In his musical drama Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner portrays desire in sound. Yearning melodies, endless dissonances on the verge of redemption: even the most dispassionate listener will be defenceless against this music. In the French filmmaker Philippe Grandrieux, Wagner is given an ideal travelling companion. Grandrieux' radical films bathe in a sensual twilight where sound and image merge. His directing places Isolde in the focal point of Wagner's opera and asserts itself as a fever dream in which music, video and dance become one.

Tristan and Isolde by Wagner, Richard, From (2023/2023), Directed by Philippe Grandrieux,, Conductor Alejo Pérez, Opera Gent (Operagebouw), Ghent, Belgium

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