Gloria Biografen brings Wagner's Tristan and Isolde from Dresden to the big screen as part of the Operakino 26/27 series. It is a tragic love story about an impossible, all-consuming passion: Tristan is loyal to King Marke, and Isolde is married to him, so the lovers cannot live their love openly.
The cast is led by Klaus Florian Vogt as Tristan, with Camilla Nylund as Isolde, Christa Mayer as Brangäne and Georg Zeppenfeld as King Marke. Christian Thielemann conducts. The production is Marco Arturo Marelli's classic 1990s staging, revived in Dresden, and is considered one of the strongest Wagner productions the city has seen in recent years. The opera deals with desire, longing and the dissolving boundary between life and death, and its famous opening chord, the Tristan chord, has become a symbol of musical yearning.
Klaus Florian Vogt also appears in another Operakino screening of Tristan and Isolde from Dresden at Valby Kino on 10 January 2027.
