Tristán e Isolda by Wagner, De (2023/2023), Dirigido por Stephan Märki,, Director Alexander Merzyn, Staatstheater Cottbus, Cottbus, Alemania

Richard Wagner calls his TRISTAN a “plot” – and thus gives the piece its decisive name. This is not about the "drama", not about external gestures and actions, but about the feelings of the two main characters, which gradually unfold: acts of music, an infinite, inner journey out into the boundless eternity of human longing for love and Salvation. With the famous Tristan chord, Wagner makes it clear from the start that no one is redeemed in this piece. A tense musical structure without real resolution, always questioning and striving for its own impossible end. "In the wafting universe" the lovers sink into an unconscious, egoless, never-ending "highest pleasure". Eros and Thanatos, death and lust merge. With this opera of all operas, director Stephan Märki and stage designer Philipp Fürhofer embark on a search for infinity and dare to take a utopian look at the new. The journey of the lovers Tristan and Isolde goes through space and time, a journey into the innermost feelings and to the extreme limits of human existence.