WAGNER

Tristan and Isolde

 

Siegfried Jerusalem

Waltraud Meier

Matthias Hölle

Falk Struckmann

Uta Priew

Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele / Daniel Barenboim

 

 

Tristan und Isolde in the acclaimed production by Heiner Müller from the Bayreuth festival from 1995, conducted by Daniel Barenboim with fire and sensitivity. Siegfried Jerusalem as Tristan and Waltraud Meier as Isolde have consistently drawn enthusiastic acclaim for their performance, not only in the year of the premiere, but in subsequent years as well

 

Heiner Müller and stage designer Erich Wonder have compressed the monumental story into a clear and fascinating geometry of love. Wonder created highly evocative spaces through projections of colours and forms which shift according to the mood

 

One widely noted example of Müller´s elegant, restrained interpretation, in which small gestures replace sweeping displays of passion, is the famous love duet, in which Tristan and Isolde, instead of embracing rapturously, stand back to back and side by side and touch, ever so lightly, only the tips of their fingers

 

“ As for the long awaited debuts of Meier and Jerusalem, the audience was ecstatic, so much so that Jerusalem excitedly hugged and kissed his partner several times during the curtain calls” (Herald Tribune)

 

“Waltraud Meier is the most beautiful and erotic Isolde in post war Bayreuth history” (Leipziger Volkszeitung)

 

First release on DVD

In 5.1 DTS Surround Sound

 

DG 2DVDs NTSC 0734439