{"id":24069,"date":"2025-04-09T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T09:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/norrlandsoperan.se\/forestallningar\/tristan-and-isolde\/"},"modified":"2026-09-04T15:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T13:54:26","slug":"tristan-and-isolde","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/norrlandsoperan.se\/en\/programme\/tristan-and-isolde\/","title":{"rendered":"Tristan and Isolde"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Isolde’s longing is everyone’s longing<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Since its premiere in Munich in 1865, Tristan and Isolde<\/em> has bewitched audiences all over the world. The bittersweet theme of longing for love, namely that between the knight Tristan and the Irish king’s daughter Isolde, who is only and first, redeemed in death, is as titillatingly strong today as it was 160 years ago. This year, Norrlandsoperan gives visitors the opportunity to experience this almost five-hour long, delirically maxed out love opera in their own house. Award-winning rising star \u00c5sa J\u00e4ger from Ume\u00e5 sings Isolde, while Greek tenor star Dimitris Paksoglou sings Tristan. The opera is conducted by Norrlandsoperan Symphony Orchestra’s chief conductor Eduardo Strausser and the direction is Dan Turd\u00e9n, the house’s artistic director of opera. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wagner’s portrayal of the theme \u2013 through the music’s painfully sweet build-up to the climax \u2013 was for its time as radical as it was subversive. Even then, the morality police warned against the opera’s erotic appropriation and diabolical attraction but, it turned out, in vain. The opera has come to have iconic status, and its fame does not seem to be waning. Perhaps this is due to the opera’s symbolic effect. In a kind of figurative sense, Tristan and Isolde’s unresolved longing can also be said to illustrate the listener’s longing for the completed experience of art, both dramatically and harmoniously. To experience Tristan and Isolde<\/em> is, seen in this light, to give in to one’s own longing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For a consummate epic Wagnerafton<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

For Tristan and Isolde<\/em> , we want to offer a complete opera experience with the possibility of food and drink, generous intervals and magnificent musical theatre, something that is completely in line with how Wagner himself envisioned his operas to be performed. In Wagner’s opera house in Bayreuth, you would be cleansed through art, food and nature and surrender to the theatre experience. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Three-course opera menu Tristan and Isolde<\/em>: full-length<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A three-course opera menu for the three-act version with two intervals can be booked in connection with your ticket purchase or afterwards via My Pages<\/strong><\/a>. Starters are served during the first intermission of 30 minutes and main course\/dessert during the second intermission of 50 minutes. The number of seats for the opera menu is limited. All dates are now fully booked. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a>\n\n\n\n

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Three-course opera menu Tristan and Isolde<\/em>: highlights<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Three-course opera menu for Tristan and Isolde – highlights<\/em> in two acts with an intermission can be booked directly in Nova’s restaurant’s booking system. Book here.<\/a><\/strong> For Tristan and Isolde<\/em> highlights <\/em>, intermission refreshments from the bistro can also be pre-ordered in connection with ticket purchases or via My Pages<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bistro<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The bistro offers an extended menu with light refreshments that can be purchased on site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hotel Offer<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Long-distance guest? Here you will find great offers on accommodation in connection with our Saturday performances. Stay great, eat well and wake up refreshed for the journey home! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Epic Wagnerrafton<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The performance has three acts and is almost five hours long, including two intermissions. First intermission: 30 minutes, second intermission 50 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Highlights<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The performance is also done in an abridged version that is 2 hours and 30 minutes long incl. 30 minutes intermission, with musical highlights and where a narrator, Hannes Meidal from the Royal Dramatic Theatre, fills in the gaps in the story. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Language<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Sung in German with both Swedish and English subtitles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Introduction<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Please join us for the introduction 30 minutes before the curtain rises, in the lobby. The concession stand opens one hour before the show begins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Opera subscription<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

This gem is included in our fine opera subscription for the 25\/26 season.

Do you also want to get unique benefits and discounts? Sign up for an opera subscription!
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Audio Description<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The performance on November 20 offers audio description.
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