must be countless times they have played in 145 years since its premiere in 1865, Tris so und Isolde, the famous opera of love and passion of Richard Wagner (1813-1883), but rarely as the last Friday in the Lucerne Summer Festival ( Lucerne Festival im Sommer ). Photos © Lucerne Festival.
Three artists joined for clever and intense project: the Finn Esa-Pekka Salonen (1958) in musical direction, with the Philharmonia Orchestra of London and the Swiss Chamber Choir, and the Americans P eter Sellars (1957) in the scenery and Bill Viola (1951) in the video. The cast was made up of international figures, the Swedish mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter as Brangäne, the American tenor Gary Lehman as Tristan, the Lithuanian soprano Violeta Urmana as Isolde, and the British bass-baritone Matthew Best as King Mark, etc. . Photos © The Tristan Project. The opera, written between 1857 and 1859, was inspired, in part, in the passion of Wagner and Mathilde, wife of his patron, the banker Otto Wesendonck, while he was in the town of millionaires in Zurich, and now belongs to the Museum Rietberg.
This tripartite project began in 2004 when Salonen leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic. In December of that year opened in the auditorium Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles and the following year in Paris at the Opera Bastille. The function, which lasted four hours, showed a Salonen, currently director of the Orchestra Philharmonia ( Philharmonia Orchestra), insurance of the orchestration, which led to the musicians as if dancing ballet. Music dialogues with the images projected on a giant screen and the voices of the singers, who appeared in different parts of the auditorium. Photos © Lucerne Festival. 
Viola's video is symbolic, not a repetition of the history of Wagner. It contains words, is speechless. Indeed, there are plenty of finely crafted images that transcend their own movement, and tables seem to become painters Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud. Tristan and Isolde remain surrounded mainly water, a symbol of purification, and fire, symbol of passion. "Tristan und Isolde Wagner Ric hard is a story of love so intense and profound that it can not be contained in the material bodies of lovers. To fully realize their love, so Tris and Isolde must transcend life itself. This theme of the spiritual nature of human love is very old , whose roots go back beyond the medieval origins of the Celtic legend specific, and deeply you in Hindu traditions b udista the NTRA that Ta are immersed in the Western cultural unconscious " says Viola. 
The video has images that are frozen in the retina. In the first act of Tristan and Isolde, played by actors Jeff Mills and Lisa Rhoden, will sync stripped of their clothing until they are completely naked. The action does not focus on this point. What you perceive is the suffering and feelings by which both are happening. Nudity is natural and the two actors are normal, do not have perfect bodies. Another scene that catches the attention is when both dip their faces, repeatedly and holding his breath in a container with water filter before drinking, or magic potion of love (top photo 1) . 
The third act ends with the death of Tristan and Isolde and achieved good images required for shooting the participation of two specialists from the Cirque du Soleil. Tristan lies dead (side, photo 1) and it falls heavy rain, then your body moves and starts to rise to heaven. Something similar happens with Isolde (photo 3) . Viola is one of the pioneers of video art works are exhibited from the 70 major museums and galleries the world. Showing the ability to capture in his human complexity is influenced by Zen Buddhism, Islamic Sufism and Christian mysticism. Photos video © Kira Perov.
Lucerne Festival Summer
With the magnificent staging of Tristan and Isolde, the Lucerne Summer Festival is nearing its end, it will be next Saturday's concert Venezuelan director Gustavo Dudamel (1981) and the Vienna Philharmonic. Dudamel will conduct two concerts, one the day before, for which entries are sold out for several weeks, as usual with the young and acclaimed South American director. photo medieval bridge in Lucerne, a symbol of the city. The Lucerne Summer Festival, which brings together the best conductors and international soloists, and concerts on its agenda for children and youth, and popular music in the streets, it is laying off until next year .
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