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Ruhr Triennale: Tristan und Isolde (New Production) August - Sept 2011

Written By The Wagnerian on Sunday 21 August 2011 | 12:41:00 am

Willy Decker
Willy Decker's last year as Director sees his new production of Tristan und Isolde. Given, as you no doubt are already aware, his three years have seen the festival concentrate on the theme of  Urmomente (Primal moments)  Tristan would seem the perfect opera  to complete such a theme.



Cast:



Tristan - Christian Franz
Christian Franz & Susan Owen: Siegfrid live recoding



Isolde - Anja Kampe

König Marke - Stephen Milling

Kurwenal - Alexander Marco-Buhrmester

Melot - Boris Grappe

Ein Hirt - Thomas Ebenstein

Ein Steuermann - Martin Gerke

Ein Junger Seemann - Thomas Ebenstein

Conductor: - Kirill Petrenko

Director: - Willy Decker

Set Designs: - Wolfgang Gussmann

Costumes: - Wolfgang Gussmann

Lighting: - Andreas Grüter

Dates:

27, 31 August, 3, 9, 13, 17, 20 September 2011 (Start 6:30 pm)

Info and Booking at festival website: http://www.ruhrtriennale.de/