[Met Performance] CID:352420
Tristan und Isolde {445} Metropolitan Opera House: 03/14/2008.
(Debuts: Gary Lehman, Janice Baird )
Metropolitan Opera House
March 14, 2008
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE {445}
Wagner-Wagner
Tristan.................Gary Lehman [Debut]
Isolde..................Deborah Voigt, Acts I, II partial
Isolde..................Janice Baird, Act II partial, Act III [Debut]
Kurwenal................Eike Wilm Schulte
Brangäne................Michelle DeYoung
King Marke..............Matti Salminen
Melot...................Stephen Gaertner
Sailor's Voice..........Tony Stevenson
Shepherd................Mark Schowalter
Steersman...............James Courtney
Pedro R. Díaz: English Horn Solo
Conductor...............James Levine
Production..............Dieter Dorn
Designer................Jürgen Rose
Lighting designer.......Max Keller
About twenty minutes into Act II, Deborah Voigt became ill, left the stage, and the curtain was lowered. After a fifteen-minute delay, the act resumed at "Sehr lebhaft" with Janice Baird singing the role of Isolde.
Photograph of Gary Lehman as Tristan and Janice Baird as Isolde by Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera.