Tristan Un Isolde

The Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu produced and performed Richard Wagner's most celebrated and impassioned operatic work, the 1865 +Tristan and Isolde, with John Treleaven as Tristan and Deborah Polaski as Isolde. This release, Tristan und Isolde, features a filmed record of that live stage production, performed and sung in its original German. In the classic story - which became one of the foundational tales of courtly love for centuries - Isolde, the heiress to the Irish throne, accidentally offers the knight Sir Tristan a love potion while attempting to serve him a poison that will kill both of them, setting the stage for an impassioned romance between them. Bertrand de Billy handles the musical direction, Alfred Kirchner the stage direction.