PHILIPPE JORDAN conducts Act 2 of Tristan with ANJA KAMPE as Isolde at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo

PHILIPPE JORDAN conducts Act 2 of Tristan with ANJA KAMPE as Isolde at the Opéra de Monte-Carlo, ANDREAS SCHAGER as Tristan.

Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major (ca. 1910 – incomplete) by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Concert on March 2, 2025

Conductor | Philippe Jordan

Tristan | Andreas Schager

Isolde | Anja Kampe

King Brand | Georg Zeppenfeld

Brangäne | Ekaterina Gubanova

Melot | Neal Cooper

Kurwenal | Przemyslaw Baranek

Orchestra Philharmonic de Monte Carlo

In collaboration with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and as a prelude to the Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo.

"In 1 876 – seven years before Wagner's death – the audience in Monte Carlo heard a concert featuring the prelude to Tristan und Isolde. This piece "caused murmurs to rise in the audience; Wagner's exaggerations found no greater credence in Monaco than in Paris." After some mostly homeopathic doses of Wagner's music – but including a complete performance of Lohengrin – Tristan returned to the Salle Garnier on March 21, 1893. It was the first year of Raoul Gunsbourg's tenure as director of our company and also the first performance of the opera in the French-speaking world. Sung in French and received with some reserve, this nevertheless remains a moment of great importance in the work's performance history, not least because of the presence of Friedrich Kranich, Gunsbourg's technical director, who was working in Monte Carlo during the winter and in Bayreuth during the summer.

In the context of our Rheingold premiere, we see this concert, performed by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and Philippe Jordan, as a kind of "Back to the Future" experience: a unique opportunity to hear Wagner both historically informed and on modern instruments within a few days ." (Source: Opéra de Monte-Carlo )