Tristan und Isolde: Performance History
First performance: 10 June 1865,
Königlich Hof- und Nationaltheater, München
Cast:
- Tristan : Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld
- Isolde : Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld
- Brangäne : Anna Possart-Deinet
(also created role of Helmwige in Die Walküre)
- Kurwenal : Anton Mitterwurzer
(also created role of Wolfram von Eschenbach in Tannhäuser)
- König Marke : Ludwig Zottmayer
- Melot : Karl Samuel Heinrich
(also created roles of Kunz Vogelgesang in Die Meistersinger
and Donner in Das Rheingold)
- Ein Hirt : Karl Simons
- Ein Steuermann : Peter Hartmann
- Ein Seemann : not named
First performance in:
- United Kingdom: 20 Jun 1882, London (Drury Lane)
- Austria: 4 Oct 1883, Vienna [rehearsed as early as 26 Oct 1862]
- Czech Republic: 29 Apr 1886, Prague
- United States: 1 Dec 1886, New York (Met)
- Poland: 3 Feb 1888, Wroclaw
- Italy: 2 Jun 1888, Bologna
- Switzerland: 18 Mar 1889, Bern
- France: 6 Feb 1890, Strasbourg
- Netherlands: 22 Mar 1890, Rotterdam
- Monaco: 22 Mar 1893, Monte Carlo
- Belgium: 21 Mar 1894, Brussels
- Russia: 25 Mar 1898, St. Petersburg [10 Dec 1881 Königsberg]
- Spain: 8 Nov 1899, Barcelona
- Argentina: 1 Aug 1901, Buenos Aires
- Hungary: 28 Nov 1901, Budapest
- Egypt: 1901, Cairo
- Latvia: 4 Nov 1904, Riga
- Portugal: 1908, Lisbon
- Sweden: 11 Feb 1909, Stockholm
- Brazil: 27 May 1910, Rio de Janeiro
- Scotland: 1912, Glasgow
- South Africa: Mar 1912, Johannesburg
- Denmark: 14 Feb 1914, Copenhagen
- Croatia: 29 Jun 1917, Zagreb
- Uruguay: 1920, Montevideo
- Finland: 23 Apr 1921, Helsinki
- Norway: 1932, Oslo
- Romania: Jan 1934, Bucharest
First performance at:
- Bayreuth Festspielhaus: 23 Jul 1886
- Metropolitan Opera: 1 Dec 1886
(299 performances in 61 seasons through 1975-76)
- San Francisco Opera: 16 Sep 1927
(48 performances in 15 seasons through 1997-98,
most recently 9 Nov 1991; first Wagner opera performed there)
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