Released:
1998-01-01

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.

Directors:
Peter Konwitschny, Brian Large

Runtime:
4h 1min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Jon Fredric West
  as
  Tristan
• 
  Kurt Moll
  as
  King Marke
• 
  Waltraud Meier
  as
  Isolde
• 
  Bernd Weikl
  as
  Kurwenal
• 
  Marjana Lipovšek
  as
  Brangäne