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Wagner - Tristan und Isolde DVD 2008 / Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala / Conducted by Daniel Barenboim / Directed by Patrice Chéreau / 3 DVD
UPC 5099951931599
REGION 0 NTSC DVD
MADE IN EU
AUDIO: LPCM Stereo, DTS 5.1 Surround
SUBTITLES: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian
Total Runtime: 257 minutes
!!! Condition of this DVD set is USED VERY GOOD !!!
English Summary:
Daniel Barenboim conducts the La Scala Orchestra and Chorus in this performance of Wagner's opera.
British tenor Ian Storey makes his La Scala debut as Tristan while the Grammy Award-winning German mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier takes on the role of Isolde.
The legendary Patrice Chéreau (Intimacy, Queen Margot) directed this production of Richard Wagner's moody opera Tristan und Isolde at the Teatro alla Scala in 2007. It stars Ian Storey, Waltraud Meier, Gerd Grochowski and Michelle DeYoung; the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Alla Scala provide musical support, under the baton of Daniel Barenboim.
Patrice Chéreau
Daniel Barenboim,
Richard Wagner,
Waltraud Meier,
Ian Storey,
Michelle DeYoung,
Gerd Grochowski,
Matti Salminen,
La Scala Orchestra,
La Scala Chorus
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde), WWV 90, is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was composed between 1857 and 1859 and premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June 1865 with Hans von Bülow conducting. Wagner referred to the work not as an opera, but called it "eine Handlung" (literally a drama, a plot or an action), which was the equivalent of the term used by the Spanish playwright Calderón for his dramas.
