
Tristan und Isolde 1998
Overview
Peter Konwitschny's new production on the première stage in Munich gives it a new, optimistic interpretation. At the opening of the Munich Opera Festival 1998, Tristan und Isolde was staged in what is now the ninth new production at the Bavarian State Opera since its world première. Director Peter Konwitschny worked together with stage and costume designer Johannes Leiacker a team already well known in Munich for its much-respected Parsifal. Zubin Mehta conducted, shortly before being called to
Director: Peter Konwitschny
Cast
Jon Fredric West
Tristan

Kurt Moll
King Marke

Waltraud Meier
Isolde
Bernd Weikl
Kurwenal

Marjana Lipovšek
Brangäne
Claes H. Ahnsjö
Melot
Kevin Conners
Shepherd
Ulrich Reß
Young Sailor
Hans Wilbrink
Helmsman

Zubin Mehta
Self - Conductor