LOCH SHELDRAKE — SUNY Sullivan is pleased to invite the community to a live HD screening of the Metropolitan Opera's highly anticipated new production of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, to be held at the Seelig Theatre on the SUNY Sullivan campus on Saturday, March 21. The broadcast begins at 12 p.m. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors and Met Opera members, $10 for students, and $5 for children under 5. 

The screening is part of The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series now in its 19th season, which transmits live performances to cinemas and venues around the world. Tristan und Isolde represents one of the most eagerly awaited events of the season — a brand-new Met production of Wagner's supreme exploration of love, longing, and transcendence.

A Once-in-a-Generation Cast

Leading the cast is Norwegian dramatic soprano Lise Davidsen, making her long-anticipated role debut as Isolde at the Met following a celebrated run at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu. Opposite her, heroic American tenor Michael Spyres stars as the love-struck Tristan in his own Met role debut. The production is conducted by the Met's Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met for the very first time. The cast also features mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangäne, bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny as Kurwenal, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as King Marke.

The new staging is by director Yuval Sharon — hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth — in his eagerly awaited Metropolitan Opera debut.

Tristan und Isolde runs approximately five hours and ten minutes with two intermissions.

About the Opera

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, premiered in 1865, stands as one of the most transformative works in the history of Western music. Its revolutionary harmonic language — built on unresolved longing and yearning — reshaped the course of classical music and influenced generations of composers, filmmakers, and artists. The opera follows the doomed love affair between the knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde, building from a fateful sea voyage to a shattering final aria, Isolde's transcendent Liebestod, or “love death.”

Tickets and sponsorship information are available at sunysullivan.edu/met-opera and will also be sold at the Seelig Theatre Box Office on the day of the show (cash, checks, and credit cards accepted).