Research Catalog

Title

Tristan und Isolde [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Publication

2007.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cronson, Mary Sharp
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
• Viola, Bill, 1951-
• Mortier, Gerard
• Perov, Kira
• Heppner, Ben
• Meier, Waltraud
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (75 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Kira Perov moderates a panel discussion of a new production of Tristan und Isolde, which was first presented in concert form in Los Angeles in December 2004, and received its fully staged premere in Paris at the National Opera Bastille in April 2005, directed by Peter Sellars, with video by Bill Viola, under the musical direction of Esa-Pekka Salonen. Gerard Mortier, director of the Paris Opera, speaks about the difficulty of staging Tristan und Isolde, the origins of the opera and its themes. Two excerpts from the Paris production are shown (these excerpts include both the live staging and the video component.) Bill Viola speaks about how he became involved with the project and his reactions to the opera how the video imagery explores the themes of love and death. Two excerpts of the video (without music or staging) are shown, and Viola discusses how they were created. Viola also incorporated the video material he created for Tristan und Isolde in a museum installation called LOVE/DEATH: the Tristan project.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; ???

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

• Music
• Operas
• Video
• Video art
• Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 > Tristan und Isolde
• Mixed media (Music)

Genre/Form

• Video.
• Music.

Credits (note)

• Music by Richard Wagner. Video by Bill Viola.

Event (note)

• Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 1, 2007.

Funding (note)

• With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Contents

Opera excerpts: Act 3, death of Tristan "Ha! Diese Sonne!" ; coming of Isolde -- Act 3, Liebestod -- Act 3, death of Tristan [video component only] -- Act 2, Fall into paradise [video component only].

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-3137

OCLC

174571732

Title

Tristan und Isolde [videorecording] : Works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2007.

Country of Producing Entity

United States.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; ???

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Credits

Music by Richard Wagner. Video by Bill Viola.

Performer

Host, Mary Sharp Cronson. Moderator, Kira Perov. Panelists, Gerard Mortier, Bill Viola.

Singers in video excerpts: Ben Heppner, Waltraud Meier.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 1, 2007.

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Added Author

Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer

Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883. Tristan und Isolde.

Viola, Bill, 1951- Interviewee

Viola, Bill, 1951- Videographer

Mortier, Gerard. Interviewee

Perov, Kira. Moderator

Heppner, Ben. voc

Meier, Waltraud. voc

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-3137