Exclusive: Tristan und Isolde. Grange Park 2011. The Concept, The Design, The Staging, The Rehearsals, The Video
Written By The Wagnerian on Saturday, 4 June 2011 | 4:06:00 pm
Tristan Comes home to England?
Conductor - Stephen Barlow
Director & Designer - David Fielding
Lighting Design: - Wolfgang Goebbel
King Mark of Cornwall: Clive Bayley
Tristan: Richard Berkeley-Steele
Isolde: Alwyn Mellor
Brangäne: Sara Fulgoni
Kurwenal: Stephen Gadd
Melot: Andrew Rees
A shepherd/a sailor: Richard Roberts
The English Chamber Orchestra
There are a few tickets for Tristan & Isolde on the following dates:
Weds 22, Sat 25, Thurs 30 June and Sunday 03 July (Or ask about returns for other dates)
Tristan und; Isolde is Wagner's easiest opera: everyone is human and the music is sublime. An Irish princess fated to marry an old king finds her true love Tristan and wanders through a magic woodland, a graveyard and finally the coast of France where her beloved waits on his deathbed.
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