Tristan und Isolde
Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer.
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The original text
Based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg.
Translations and adaptations
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
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 Unpublished PhD thesis.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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