Music:Richard Wagner
Production by Dmitry Chernyakov
Libretto by the composer

Performed in German

Musical Director: Valery Gergiev
Stage Director: Dmitry Chernyakov
Set Designers: Dmitry Chernyakov and Zinovy Margolin
Costume Designers: Dmitry Chernyakov and Irina Tsvetkova
Lighting Designer: Gleb Filshtinsky
Vocal and Language Preparation and Consultant: Richard Trimborn
Musical Preparation: Marina Mishuk
Principal Chorus Master: Andrei Petrenko

•World premiere: 10 June 1865, Konigliches Hof- und Nationaltheater, Munich
•First performance in Russia: 13 March 1898, given by the Georg Paradise, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg
•Premiere of this production: 27 May 2005, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg

The most famous story of the sublime and mournful love of all operatic repertoire ever is undoubtely Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner. Operas are often performed in concert. In addition to their fully staged productions on stage of the Mariinsky Theatre, concert performances provide our theatre-goers with the opportunity to draw attention to the most brilliant pieces of musical compositions, focusing on the vocal skills of opera singers in the extremely demanding roles of Wagnerian heroes, as well as the bright, powerful, truly symphonic orchestra playing. Along with musicians, listeners “live” through the operatic score, page-by-page, recognising the famous motifs of love, death, grief, longing, loss, etc. presented in the form of large-scale musical canvases within the genuine masterpiece composed by one of the greatest German composers.