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Important years in Richard Wagner's life

1813 born in Leipzig
1834 Die Feen completed
1843 Holländer premiere
1845 Tannhäuser premiere
1850 Lohengrin premiere
1852 text of Rheingold and Walküre
1854 Das Rheingold completed
1856 Die Walküre completed
1859 Tristan completed
1865 Tristan premiere in Munich
1868 Meistersinger premiere
1869 Das Rheingold premiere
1870 Die Walküre premiere
1871 Siegfried completed
1874 Götterdämmerung completed
1876 First Festival in Bayreuth
1882 Parsifal premiere
1883 Wagner dies in Venice

 

Tristan und Isolde

Wagner finished the music of Tristan und Isolde in 1859. Tristan und Isolde had its premiere at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater on 10 June 1865.

Waltraud Meier and Jon Fredric West as Isolde and Tristan

In the tenor Ludwig Schnorr Wagner found his ideal Tristan. Schnorr died only two weeks after the premiere. Wagner declared that he never would allow the opera to be performed again. The next time Tristan und Isolde was produced was in 1876 in Berlin. The first performance of Tristan und Isolde in Bayreuth was in 1886.

Tristan und Isolde was produced in the following cities the first years after the world premiere in 1865

1876 Berlin
1882 London
1883 Wien
1886 Praha and
Bayreuth Festival (Felix Mottl)
See all those who have conducted Tristan at Bayreuth here
1903 Wien (Gustav Mahler)
1909 Petersburg

 

See all those who have conducted Tristan at the Bayreuth Festival here

Tristan und Isolde on DVD
Tristan und Isolde on CD

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