Wagner’s
Tristan und Isolde
Encore in HD
Saturday, March 28, 2025
10:00 AM PDT
Tickets on sale August 27, 2025
After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke..
Composer
Richard Wagner
Librettist
Richard Wagner
SUNG IN German (ENGLISH SUBTITLES)
RUNTIME: 4hrs 50m, Two Intermissions
This performance will be recorded live, earlier in March, on the Metropolitan Opera stage and presented in HD on the big screen at Newport Performing Arts Center.
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