Wagner's Tristan und Isolde
Saturday, March 21st, 2026
12 pm
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• One of the world’s greatest Wagnerian artists, Lise Davidsen tackles a pinnacle of the dramatic soprano repertoire, the Irish princess Isolde, opposite heroic tenor Michael Spyres as the love-drunk Tristan in Wagner’s transcendent epic. Davidsen returns to the Met after celebrated turns in Beethoven’s Fidelio (2025), Puccini’s Tosca (2024), Verdi’s La Forza del Destino (2024), and Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (2023) and Ariadne auf Naxos (2022). • Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth— introduces an epic new production of Tristan und Isolde, which marks the company’s first performances of the opera in ten years and Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time conducting it at the Met. • A pinnacle of classical music, Tristan und Isolde is built on the idea of a great yearning, irresistible and self-perpetuating, that cannot be fulfilled in this life. The prelude sweeps the listener into an ecstatic yet tortuous world of longing, and the vocal parts are of unique stature. The opera culminates in Isolde’s soaring final aria, “Mild und leise.” |
