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Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner r (1813-1883)
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Based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg, the opera composed and the libretto written by Wagner.
Composed between 1857 and 1859, the work had its premiere at the Königliches Hoftheater und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 June 1865,m with Hans von Bülow conducting.
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Performance history in South Africa
1913: Presented by the Quinlan Opera Company for the Wagner Festival in both Cape Town and Johannesburg.
1982: Presented by CAPAB Opera
1992: Presented by CAPAB Opera (5–19 February)
Sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristan_und_Isolde
Wayne Muller. 2018. A reception history of opera in Cape Town: Tracing the development of a distinctly South African operatic aesthetic (1985–2015). Unpublished PhD thesis.
Hilde Roos. 2012. 'Indigenisation and history: how opera in South Africa became South African opera'. Acta Academica Supplementum. 2012(1).
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