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Bayreuth comes to the Ruhr: leading Wagner singers in Gelsenkirchen for a new Tristan und Isolde

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Reviewed at Musiktheater im Revier, Gelsenkirchen on 4 March 2017
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde
Musiktheater im Revier
Rasmus Baumann, Conductor
Michael Schulz, Director
Kathrin-Susann Brose, Set Designer
Renée Listerdal, Costume Designer
Catherine Foster, Isolde
Torsten Kerl, Tristan
Phillip Ens, King Marke
Urban Malmberg, Kurwenal
Almuth Herbst, Brangäne
Piotr Prochera, Melot
William Saetre, Shepherd
Ibrahim Yesilay, Young seaman
Jacoub Eisa, Helmsman
Neue Philharmonie Westfalen
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