Wagner: Tristan und Isolde

Directed by Peter Sellars and Bill Viola

With Andreas Schager, Martina Serafin, René Pape, Matthias Goerne and Ekaterina Gubanova

Motivated by the love that bound him to Mathilda Wesendonck, Richard Wagner’s composition of Tristan und Isolde goes far beyond any simple operatic gesture. Peter Sellars’ production pours oil onto this troubled sea of emotions in an almost dematerialised setting bared of all earthly contingencies whilst Bill Viola presents the lovers’ initiatory quest for nirvana in videos detached from the stage, suspended like altarpieces.