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- Performers of the first premieres
- Greatest performers
- Tristan und Isolde opera's inspirers and collaborators
- Persons are sorted by roles and birth years
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Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde
- Opera in 3 acts, in German
- Music by Richard Wagner
- Libretto by Richard Wagner
- Based largely on the Medieval legend Tristan, and on it's 12th-century adaption Tristan and Iseult, a chivalric romance by Gottfried von Strassburg. The opera was inspired by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer (particularly The World as Will and Representation), as well as by Wagner's affection for Mathilde Wesendonck.
- Time: the 12th century
- Place: Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany
- Important performances
- Germany: 10 June 1865 the World Premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater und Nationaltheater in Munich
- United Kingdom: the 1st performance outside Germany in 1882 at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
- Austria: 4 Oct 1883 at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna
- Bayreuther Festspiele 25 July 1886, Germany
- United States: Dec 1886 at Metropolitan Opera, New York
- UK: 18th May and 2nd June 1936, great immemorable performances in London with Flagstad and Melchior, Chorus of ROH Covent Garden, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Reiner conducting
- Roles
- Tristan, a Breton nobleman, adopted heir of King Marke, tenor
- Isolde, an Irish princess betrothed to King Marke, soprano
- Brangäne, Isolde's maid, soprano
- Anna Deinet World Premiere 10 June 1865
- Sabine Kalter
- Blanche Thebom
- Kerstin Meyer
- Christa Deiber
- Kurwenal, Tristan's servant, baritone
- Anton Mitterwurzer (1818-1876) World Premiere 10 June 1865
- Friedrich Schorr
- Herbert Janssen
- Sigurd Björling
- Hans Hotter
- Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Eberhard Waechter
- Tom Gunnar Krause
- Marke, King of Cornwall, bass
- Ludwig Zottmayr (1828-1899) World Premiere 10 June 1865
- Alexander Kipnis
- Ivar Fritjof Andresen
- Hans Hotter
- Kim Borg
- Martti Talvela
- Kurt Moll
- Matti Salminen
- Melot, a courtier, Tristan's friend, tenor (or baritone)
- Karl Samuel Heinrich World Premiere 10 June 1865
- A shepherd, tenor
- Karl Simons (1877-1960) World Premiere 10 June 1865
- Hermann Gallos
- Rudolf Schock
- A steersman, baritone
- Peter Hartmann World Premiere 10 June 1865
- A young sailor, tenor
- Sailors, knights, and esquires
- Scenographers
- Richard Wagner himself in the World Premiere 10 June 1865
- Carlo Brioschi (Wiener Staatsoper 4 Oct 1883)
- Johann Baptist Wenzel Kautsky (Wiener Staatsoper 4 Oct 1883)
- Joseph Eduard Flüggen
- Oskar Strnad
- Robert Kautsky (Wiener Staatsoper 29 March 1946)
- Wieland Wagner (Bayreuth 1952 & 1962)
- Wolfgang Wagner (Bayreuth 1957)
- Josef Svoboda (Bayreuth 1974)
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (Bayreuth 1981 & film)
- Costume designors
- Franz von Seitz (1817-1883) World Premiere 10 June 1865
- Franz Xaver Gaul (Wiener Staatsoper 4 Oct 1883)
- Joseph Eduard Flüggen (Bayreuther Festspiele 25 July 1886)
- Daniela von Bülow (Bayreuther Festspiele 1927)
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (Bayreuth 1981 & film)
- Stage directors
- Richard Wagner himself in the World Premiere 10 June 1865
- Cosima Wagner (Bayreuther Festspiele 25. Juli 1886)
- Siegfried Wagner (Bayreuth 1927)
- Wieland Wagner (Bayreuth 1952 & 1962)
- Göran Gentele (Royal Swedish Opera 29 Dec 1966)
- Wolfgang Wagner (Bayreuth 1957)
- August Everding (Bayreuth 1974)
- Götz Friedrich (Deutsche Oper in Berlin)
- Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (Bayreuth 1981 & film)
- Katharina Wagner (Bayreuth 10 June 2015)
- Conductors
- Hans Guido von Bülow, Freiherr World Premiere 10 June 1865
- János/Hans Richter
- Gustav Mahler
- Bruno Walter
- Artur Bodanzky
- Thomas Beecham
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Hans Knappertsbusch
- Fritz Reiner
- Erich Kleiber
- Karl August Leopold Boehm
- Wilhelm Pitz (director of the Bayreuth Festival choir 1952-1973)
- Josef Alois Krips
- Herbert von Karajan
- Joseph Keilberth
- Erich Leinsdorf
- Georg Solti
- Otmar Suitner
- Wolfgang Sawallisch
- Bernard Haitink
- Carlos Kleiber
- Daniel Barenboim
- Leif Segerstam