The Nationale reisopera came, saw and conquered. The company wrote opera history in capital letters with an overwhelming production of Wagner's four-part Ring cycle. After this triumph ventures the reisopera itself to Tristan und Isolde, the romantic music drama of the nineteenth century.
A few of the reviews of the final movement Götterdämmerung (2012): ' Götterdämmerung sizzles, swirls, glows and emotes (De Volkskrant). ' ' A Wagner of stunning quality. Searing dramatic, extremely colorful in his orchestral shades and with a very convincing cast (Het Parool). '
It is Wagner's most personal opera. With the medieval legend praised his covert relationship with Mathilde von Wesendonck, the wife of his benefactor. He made of the opera a musical flow that you are rushing in the allesverzengende passion of the main characters. Lovers who according to Director Jakob Peters-Messer ' glowing from the inside in an otherwise empty world, to which they seem to have no part. '
Antony Hermus conducts. At the reisopera he was already told in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. When there was a lot to enjoy ' musical ' and he reached ' exciting and rousing results ' (Trouw).
Cast and Creative team for Tristan und Isolde at Lucent Danstheater
Antony Hermus-conductor Jakob Peters-Messer-directed by
Robert Künzli-Tristan Yorck Felix Spear-König Marke Claudia Iten-Isolde Sebastian Noack-Kurnewal Andrew Rees-Kabir Anne-Marie Owens-Brangäne Gregory Warren-Ein junger Seemann/Ein Hirt