Royal Festival Hall
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Resident at Southbank Centre
Saturday 13 December 2008, 7.30pm
Gustav Mahler Adagio from Symphony No.10
INTERVAL
Richard Wagner Tristan und
Isolde, Act 2
Vladimir Jurowskiconductor
Anja KampeIsolde
Robert
Dean SmithTristan
Sarah ConnollyBrangaene
Laszlo PolgarMarke
Stephen GaddMelot/Kurwenal
'Since I have never enjoyed in life the real happiness of love, I will erect this most beautiful of all dreams in which
this love shall drink its fill', so wrote Wagner when conceiving Tristan und Isolde. But mid-way through the opera's
second act, Wagner was experiencing a romance of sorts - indeed, a forbidden love that reflected the very plight of Tristan
in his love for Isolde. Wagner had fallen for Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of his patron, and poured the experience into
the yearning beauty of the opera's central act - a sensuous and tortuous expression of love.
Royal
Festival Hall at 6.15pm: Musicologist Jonathan Burton talks aboutWagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Admission free.
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