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New production of Tristan and Isolde captivates first-night audience

A new production of Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde was opened at the Prague State Opera on May 20, 2010, attracting interest from the audiences and the media. A milestone in opera history, often called a drama of the human heart, Tristan was last staged in what was then the New German Theatre and now the Prague State Opera in 1934. Returning to our opera house after 76 years, Wagner’s opera was musically prepared by renowned British conductor Jan Latham-Koenig, staged by an international production team (director Marcelo Lombardero, stage designer Diego Siliano, costume designer Luciana Gutman), with an international cast starring Marion Ammann (Isolde), Leonid Zakhozhaev (Tristan), Amber Wagner (Brangäne), Tomasz Konieczny (Kurwenal), Richard Wiegold (King Marke). The first-night audience gave a huge ovation to the conductor and the Prague State Opera orchestra, spontaneously applauding the singers in the lead roles as well as Amber Wagner, a young American soprano singing Brangäne.

Earlier on the opening day of Tristan and Isolde, a bust in memory of Richard Wagner was unveiled in the dress-circle foyer of the PSO historic building in what is a joint initiative of the Prague State Opera and the Richard Wagner Society, funded equally by both institutions and related to the 2012 Wagner Congress to be held in Prague, with the Prague State Opera acting as one of the major hosts. The bust was created by Václav Krčál, a young artist who became the undisputed winner of the bid.

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