Wagner

Heinrich der Vogler Georg Zeppenfeld Lohengrin Piotr Beczała Elsa von Brabant Anna Netrebko Friedrich von Telramund Tomasz Konieczny Ortrud Evelyn Herlitzius Der Heerufer des Königs Derek Welton Vier brabantische Edle Tom Martinsen, Simeon Esper, Matthias Henneberg, Tilmann Rönnebeck Vier Edelknaben Jana Hohlfeld, Monika Harnisch, Annett Eckert, Furuta Masako Christian Thielemann Sächsischer Staatsopernchor Dresden Sinfoniechor Dresden Extrachor der Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden, Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden Stage director Christiane Mielitz Video director Tiziano Mancini

Hudební nastudování a dirigent Christian Thielemann Režie Willy Decker Scéna Wolfgang Gussmann Kostýmy Wolfgang Gussmann, Frauke Schernau Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden Siegmund Christopher Ventris Hunding Georg Zeppenfeld Wotan Markus Marquardt Sieglinde Petra Lang Brünnhilde Nina Stemme Fricka Christa Mayer Helmwige Christiane Kohl Gerhilde Sonja Mühleck Ortlinde Irmgard Vilsmaier Waltraute Christina Bock Siegrune Julia Rutigliano Rossweisse Simone Schröder Grimgerde Constance Heller Schwertleite Nadine Weissmann

Dirigent Leif Segerstam Text/libretto Richard Wagner Regi Hans-Peter Lehmann Ljus Linus Fellbom Scenografi och kostym Olaf Zombeck Tristan Thomas Sunnegårdh Kung Marke Lennart Forsén Isolde Nina Stemme Kurwenal Gunnar Lundberg d.y. Melot Magnus Kyhle Brangäne Martina Dike En herde Ulrik Qvale En styrman John Erik Eleby En ung sjöman Ulrik Qvale Medverkan Herrar ur Kungliga Operans kör Medverkan Kungliga Hovkapellet

Company The Royal Opera Venue Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London Performance status Revival Director Herbert Wernicke Conductor Bernard Haitink Chorus Director Terry Edwards Concert Master Vasko Vassilev Sailor Timothy Robinson Isolde Gabriele Schnaut Brangäne Petra Lang Kurwenal Alan Titus Tristan Jon Fredric West Melot Christopher Booth-Jones King Marke Peter Rose A Shepherd Peter Auty A Steersman Graeme Broadbent Tristan and Isolde as caged hamsters There’s something about Herbert Wernicke’s staging of Tristan und Isolde, the first of the Royal Opera’s new productions this season, that reminds me irresistibly of hamsters. Breeding the rodents is a tricky business; they don’t get on very well, and getting a pair to mate has to be approached carefully, bringing them together just for a few minutes to do the business and then separating them before they can kill each other. Wernicke treats these most famous of operatic lovers like that too: his set (he’s done everything, including the lighting) consists of two colour-coded boxes - blue for the boy, blood red for the girl - and Tristan and Isolde are never allowed to leave these domains, as if close contact would cause them to tear each other limb from limb. Even in the second act the hamsters - sorry, the lovers - never approach within 10 yards of each other, never exchange glances; their boxes move suggestively together and the lighting becomes more elaborate as they get worked up, but that’s about it. ...

Dirigent Donald Runnicles Inszenierung August Everding Ausstattung Jürgen Rose Choreographie Ray Barra Chorleitung Ernst Dunshirn Amfortas Franz Grundheber Titurel Walter Fink Gurnemanz Franz-Josef Selig Parsifal Thomas Moser Klingsor Wolfgang Bankl Kundry Deborah Polaski

Conductor Donald Runnicles Original production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff Stage Director Andrei Serban Original production designed by John Conklin Revised by John Coyne First Norn Elena Zaremba Second Norn Catherine Cook Third Norn Kristine Ciesinski Brünnhilde Jane Eaglen Siegfried Wolfgang Schmidt Gunther David Okerlund Hagen Eric Halfvarson Gutrune Kristine Ciesinski Waltraute Marjana Lipovsek Alberich Tom Fox Woglinde Suzanne Ramo Wellgunde Elizabeth Bishop Flosshilde Elena Bocharova

Conductor Donald Runnicles Original production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff Stage Director Andrei Serban Original production designed by John Conklin Revised by John Coyne Mime Gary Rideout Siegfried Wolfgang Schmidt Wanderer (Wotan) James Morris Alberich Tom Fox Fafner Eric Halfvarson Forest Bird Suzanne Ramo Erda Elena Zaremba Brünnhilde Jane Eaglen

Conductor Donald Runnicles Original production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff Stage Director Andrei Serban Original production designed by John Conklin Revised by John Coyne Sieglinde Deborah Voigt Siegmund Mark Baker Hunding Reinhard Hagen Wotan James Morris Brünnhilde Jane Eaglen Fricka Marjana Lipovsek Ortlinde Nicolle Foland Schwertleite Ellen Rabiner Waltraute Alexandra Hughes Gerhilde Kristine Ciesinski Helmwige Claudia Waite Siegrune Elizabeth Bishop Grimgerde Kathryn Cowdrick Rossweisse Catherine Cook

Conductor Donald Runnicles Original production by Nikolaus Lehnhoff Stage Director Andrei Serban Original production designed by John Conklin Revised by John Coyne Woglinde Suzanne Ramo Wellgunde Elizabeth Bishop Flosshilde Elena Bocharova Alberich Tom Fox Fricka Marjana Lipovsek Wotan James Morris Freia Nicolle Foland Fasolt Reinhard Hagen Fafner Eric Halfvarson Froh James Cornelison Donner Jeffrey Wells Loge Thomas Sunnegårdh Mime Gary Rideout Erda Elena Zaremba

Conductor Donald Runnicles Stage Director Michael Hampe Designer Mauro Pagano Lighting Designer Thomas J. Munn Chorus Director Ian Robertson Sailor’s Voice Norman Shankle Isolde Elizabeth Connell Brangäne Violeta Urmana Kurwenal Tom Fox Tristan Wolfgang Schmidt Melot John Robert Autry King Marke Victor von Halem Shepherd Richard Walker Steersman Jere Torkelsen