Tristan und Isolde: a semi-staged performance
Opera’s greatest love story returns.
All remaining tickets will go on sale to the public at 6.00pm on Sunday 18 April online. Phone booking opens at 10.00am Monday 19 April.
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Dates, times and prices
Friday 13 August, 1.50pm / Tuesday 17 August, 1.50pm / Saturday 21 August, 1.50pm / Tuesday 24 August, 1.50pm / Saturday 28 August, 1.50pm
Central Stalls, Front Stalls, Central & Side Foyer Circle, Central & Side Circle, Foyer Circle Centre Boxes: £230
Front Side Stalls, Rear Seats Foyer Circle Centre Boxes A & F, Circle Centre Boxes: £195
Upper Circle Rows A-D: £150
Rear Foyer Circle Sides, Rear Circle Sides, Foyer Circle Side Boxes 5-8, Upper Circle Row E-G: £120
Front Foyer Circle Sides & Side Boxes, Circle Side Boxes, Upper Circle Slips: £60
About the opera
Bound in marriage against her will, princess Isolde resolves to end her life along with that of her enemy, the knight Tristan. But when a love potion is substituted for poison, the two are drawn into an all-consuming, obsessive love affair that destroys everything – and everyone – in its unstoppable path.
‘I am still looking for a work with as dangerous a fascination, with as terrible and sweet an infinity as Tristan,’ Nietzsche wrote of Wagner’s great tragedy. A story about longing and yearning, about an unresolved and unresolvable love, expressed in music that famously delays and denies us resolution until its very final bars, the opera still exerts the same fascination today. Reinventing the rules of harmony and shifting music’s centre of gravity, it remains one of the most influential works in the repertoire – a touchstone for all that has come since.
Robin Ticciati conducts a semi-staged performance of Wagner’s great love story, with a full orchestra on stage.

Festival artwork
We have worked with artist Tom Hammick to create a series of images to illustrate the six operas that make up Festival 2021.
You can find out more about Tom’s work at hammickeditions.com and he will be exhibiting works inspired by our repertoire at Glyndebourne throughout Festival 2021. A selection of original works and prints will be available from Glyndebourne Shop.
This work is entitled Liebestod.
Images © Tom Hammick. All rights reserved, DACS 2021
Creative team
Conductor
Robin Ticciati
Staging by
Dan Dooner
London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Glyndebourne Chorus
Cast includes
Tristan
Simon O’Neill
Isolde
Miina-Liisa Värelä
Brangäne
Karen Cargill
Kurwenal
Shenyang
King Marke
John Relyea
Melot
Neal Cooper
Hirt/Seeman
Stuart Jackson
Supported by
Miss Myriam Trevaux Charitable Trust with a Syndicate and Circle of individuals
Tristan und Isolde is available to support as a Production Circle and Syndicate.
Find out more here or contact our Director of Development, Helen McCarthy at helen.mccarthy@glyndebourne.com
