This is an opera about an impossible, all-consuming love. Tristan and Isolde cannot live their love openly: Tristan is loyal to King Marke, and Isolde is married to him.
The production is Marco Arturo Marelli's classic staging from the 1990s, revived for this screening and conducted by Christian Thielemann, one of the leading Wagner conductors of our time. The cast includes Klaus Florian Vogt as Tristan, Camilla Nylund as Isolde, Christa Mayer as Brangäne and Georg Zeppenfeld as King Marke. The opera deals with desire, longing and the blurring of the line between life and death, and it opens with the famous Tristan chord, a symbol of musical longing and unresolved desire.
