Wagner - Tristan and Isolde, Act 2/3 (Bayerische Staatsoper, Zubin Mehta)

A production from Münchner Opernfestspiele (1998) by stage director Peter Konwitschny.
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Richard Wagner - Tristan and Isolde

Bayerisches Staatsorchester (Bavarian State Orchestra)
Zubin Mehta - conductor
Udo Mehpohl - choir master

Waltraud Meier - Isolde
Jon Fredric West - Tristan
Kurt Moll - King Mark
Marjana Lipovsek - Brangäne
Bernd Weikl - Kurwenal
Claes H. Ahnsjo - Melot
Kevin Conners - Shepherd
Hans Wilbrink - Helmsman
Ulrich Reß - Young Sailor

Peter Konwitschny - stage director
Johannes Leiacker - set and costume designer
Michael Bauer - lighting

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Act Two
King Marke has gone hunting at night with his retinue. Isolde is waiting in the garden for Tristan. Brangäne warns Isolde about Melot, Marke's liegeman, because she is convinced that he plans to betray the lovers to his master. Isolde does not heed her. Impatiently she extinguishes the torch at the door, the signal that she and Tristan have agreed on. Tristan and Isolde are delighted to be together without the danger of being disturbed and decide to quit this world, which does not allow them to love each other, and live only for their love. At dawn King Marke, who has been alerted by Melot, appears with his retinue. Disappointed at Tristan's betrayal of his trust and his friendship, he sees the existence of all moral values called into question. At this moment, Tristan 's feelings of guilt and remorse are stronger than his love for Isolde; he agrees to fight a duel with Melot and runs into the latter's sword.