German soprano Gunbrita Barkmina / Diena will sing in the concert performance of Tristan und Isolde in Cēsis

Liene Kinča will not be able to participate due to her health condition Tristana an Izoldes in the concert production of the Cēsi Art Festival. Isolde will be played by the German soprano Gunbritt Barkmin, who is in demand in European opera houses and specializes in embodying dramatically powerful and complex operatic characters.

Gunbrita Barkmin started her career at the Berlin Comic Opera, later performed at the Vienna State Opera, Zurich, Prague and Stuttgart Opera Houses, as well as in concert performances with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andra Nelson at New York’s Carnegie Hall and with the Tokyo NHK Orchestra under the direction of Charles Dutoit. Participated in the Verbier Festival and Festival BBC Proms in London. Gunbrit Barkmin’s role is wide and varied. From Wagner’s opera roles, her repertoire includes Sieglinde, Elsa, Isolde and Brinnhilde.

In the role of Tristan in Cēsis, we will hear the German tenor Marko Jenča, who has performed at the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Comic Opera, the Leipzig and Dresden Opera Houses, Milan Teatro alla ScalaDutch Opera, etc. This season he makes his debut as Tristan and also participates in his first Ring of the Nibelung in the production.

Mezzo-soprano Martina Dike will be on stage with the performers of the title roles, German bass-baritone Olivers Cvargs, Estonian bass Ains Angers and Latvian National Opera soloists Mihails Chuļpajevs, Artjoms Safronovs and Rinalds Kandalintsevs. Tristana an Izoldes the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra under the leadership of conductor Andras Pogas will take part in the concert performance in Cēsis.

Similar to Riharda Wagner in 2019 Valkyries in the performance of the first act, the concert hall will also be used this time Cesis orchestra room, opening up wider opportunities for set designer Oleg Golovko and video artist Aleksandar Labonov, who have just finished work on the Daile Theater performance In the solitude of the cotton fields.

It has already been announced that the opera Tristan and Izolde The last time it was performed in Latvia was in 1921 at the Latvian National Opera, and now it will be performed after a 100-year break.

The Celtic legend of Tristan and Isolde is one of the most beautiful love stories of all time, and Richard Wagner, using it as the basis for his opera, is said to have wanted to build a monument to the most beautiful of dreams, which still touches the hearts of listeners in music.

The plot of Wagner’s opera tells about the unusual love story of Tristan and Isolde, which begins when Tristan kills Isolde’s fiancé. After mistakenly drinking a love potion from the same cup, they fall hopelessly in love with each other. But fate is not kind to the young lovers, as Isolde’s hand has been promised to Tristan’s foster father, King Mark.

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