Wagner's great ode to sexual ecstasy

The return of an iconic coup de theatre. David Hockney's stunning designs make his breathtaking, internationally acclaimed staging of Tristan und Isolde one of the Company's most exciting landmark productions. The bold and fancifully abstract Hockney sets dazzle the eye, creating a "tone of antic freshness, of fairy-tale legend filtered through adult (and adulterous) fantasy" (The New York Times). They provide a stunning visual counterpoint to Wagner's unfolding drama of fatal attraction and forbidden love.

With the intense longing of the opening orchestral prelude all the way through to Isolde's final aria, the artfully orgasmic "Liebestod," Wagner charts new operatic territory that changed the course of music history. Tristan und Isolde features two artists in the title roles, John Treleaven and Linda Watson, who will return in future seasons as Siegfried and Brünnhilde in the Company's first presentation of Wagner's epic Ring cycle.

TRISTAN	John Treleaven	View Profile
ISOLDE	Linda Watson	View Profile
ISOLDE (FEB. 3)	Susan Foster
KING MARKE	Kristinn Sigmundsson	View Profile
KING MARKE (FEB. 6, 10)	Eric Halfvarson	View Profile
KURWENAL	Juha Uusitalo	View Profile
BRANGANE	Lioba Braun	View Profile
SHEPHERD/SAILOR	Gregory Warren	View Profile
STEERSMAN	Matthew Moore	View Profile

CONDUCTOR	James Conlon	View Profile
DIRECTOR	Thor Steingraber	View Profile
DESIGNER	David Hockney	View Profile
ASSOCIATE CONDUCTOR/CHORUS MASTER	Grant Gershon	View Profile

RUNNING TIME
4 hours 30 minutes, including two intermissions.

PRE-PERFORMANCE LECTURE: [ Listen ] [ Watch ]
One hour prior to each performance.
Music Director James Conlon interviewed by Michael Hackett.
Pre-performance lectures are generously sponsored by the Flora L. Thornton Foundation and the Opera League of Los Angeles.

PRODUCTION NOTES:
Sung in German with English supertitles.

Artists and dates subject to change.