Artists
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
- Peter Sellars director
- Bill Viola visual artist
- James F. Ingalls lighting designer
- Nina Stemme Isolde
- Stephen Gould Tristan
- Michelle DeYoung Brangäne
- Franz Josef Selig King Mark
- James Rutherford Kurwenal
- Richard Trey Smagur Melot
- Bille Bruley Sailor/Shepherd
About this Performance
Due to the continuing COVID-19 crisis, all LA Phil concerts at Walt Disney Concert Hall have been canceled through December 31, 2020.
This event has been canceled.
- We have moved all 2020/21 subscriptions into the 2021/22 season. This will enable subscribers to keep their seats when we return for a full season of music back at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
- Subscriber Add-On tickets can be donated, returned for account credit, or refunded.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen returns with this remarkable production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde directed by Peter Sellars with video by Bill Viola, one of America’s leading visual artists. When the Tristan Project was first performed in 2004, The New York Times called it a highlight of Salonen’s tenure and hailed it as “a multimedia conception that promised to be so ingenious that listeners traveled long distances to catch it and talked about it for months.” Matching Wagner’s 19th-century desire to expand what opera could be with 21st-century innovation, Viola and Sellars’ staging explores the psychological, spiritual, and elemental subtext of the story. This rare opportunity to see the Tristan Project features a globally celebrated cast, headlined by Nina Stemme and Stephen Gould.
In Tristan and Isolde, Wagner tells the star-crossed tale of two doomed lovers, but it was his musical setting that caused a revolution. Beginning with the very first notes, the famed “Tristan chord,” Wagner elicits an endless yearning that mirrors the tumultuous emotional worlds of our heroes, with an innovative harmonic approach that left an unavoidable impact on generations of composers.
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