Tristan und Isolde: Canadian Opera Company

O wydarzeniu

World‐renowned opera director Peter Sellars recreates his magnificent production of Tristan und Isolde at the Canadian Opera Company in Toronto. Audiences can experience first‐hand the internationally acclaimed dramatic voices Ben Heppner and Melanie Diener in the leading roles.

This is a unique opportunity to witness the immersive sensuality of Bill Viola’s spectacular video‐imagery, set to Wagner’s glorious music.

In this famous epic tale, a powerful love‐potion binds Tristan to Isolde. Their insatiable longing for unattainable unity reaches a rapturous finale in a love which can only be fulfilled in death.

“[I] came away in something like [a] state of dazed bliss… the images seemed to arise from the subconscious of the score, from the mysterious nexus where words become notes.” (Alex Ross, The New Yorker)

Performed in German with English surtitles.

Conductor: Jiří Bělohlávek
Director: Peter Sellars
Video: Bill Viola
Costume Designer: Martin Pakledinaz
Lighting Designer: James F. Ingalls
Chorus Master: Sandra Horst

Tristan: Ben Heppner (Jan. 29, Feb. 2, 14, 17, 20)
Burkhard Fritz (Feb. 8, 23)
Isolde: Melanie Diener (Jan. 29, Feb. 2, 14, 17, 20)
Margaret Jane Wray (Feb. 8, 23)
Brangäne: Daveda Karanas
Kurwenal: Alan Held
King Marke of Cornwall: Franz‐Josef Selig
Melot: Ryan McKinny
Steersman: Robert Gleadow

With the COC Orchestra and Chorus