Philippe Jordan conducts Act II of Tristan with Anja Kampe as Isolde at the Opera de Monte Carlo

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

First part:
Adagio from Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major (c. 1910 - unfinished) by Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Concert on 2nd March 2025

Conductor | Philippe Jordan

Tristan | Andreas Schager

Isolde | Anja Kampe

King Marke | Georg Zeppenfeld

Brangäne | Ekaterina Gubanova

Melot | Neal Cooper

Kurwenal | Przemyslaw Baranek

Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo

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

“ In 1876 – seven years before Wagner’s death – the Monte Carlo audience attended a concert featuring the prelude of Tristan und Isolde. This piece “let murmurs rise from the audience; Wagner’s exaggerations found no more credence in Monaco than in Paris”. After some mostly homeopathic doses of Wagner’s music – but including a full production of Lohengrin – Tristan returned to the Salle Garnier on 21 March 1893. It was the first year of Raoul Gunsbourg’s tenure as our company’s director and also the opera’s first performance in the French-speaking world. Sung in French and received with a certain reserve, this is still a moment of major importance in the work’s performance history, not in the least for the presence of Friedrich Kranich, Gunsbourg’s technical director, who worked in Monte Carlo in winter, and in Bayreuth in 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 chance to hear within days Wagner performed historically informed, as well as on modern instruments.“ source Opera de Monte Carlo