Overview

Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich Opera Festival 1998, Tristan und Isolde was staged in what is now the ninth new production at the Bavarian State Opera since its world première. Director Peter Konwitschny worked together with stage and costume designer Johannes Leiacker a team already well known in Munich for its much-respected Parsifal. Zubin Mehta conducted, shortly before being called to be General Music Director at the Bavarian State Opera. The title parts were interpreted by the American tenor Jon Frederic West, widely known for his Wagner-roles and Waltraud Meier, one of the greatest Isoldes of our time.

Top Cast

J

Jon Fredric West

Tristan

Kurt Moll

King Marke

Waltraud Meier

Isolde

B

Bernd Weikl

Kurwenal

Marjana Lipovšek

Brangäne

C

Claes H. Ahnsjö

Melot

K

Kevin Conners

Shepherd

U

Ulrich Reß

Young Sailor

H

Hans Wilbrink

Helmsman

Zubin Mehta

Self - Conductor