Opera Kino at Café Biografen brings Wagner's Tristan and Isolde from Dresden to the big screen. The production keeps Marco Arturo Marelli's 1990s staging, with a stylised, minimalist set of geometric forms, muted colours and a focus on the psychological relationships between the characters.
Christian Thielemann conducts, and Klaus Florian Vogt and Camilla Nylund sing the title roles. Both parts are notoriously demanding, with long stretches of intense dramatic declamation and frequent climbs to the top of the vocal range over a large orchestra, so the casting is the heart of the evening. The story follows Isolde and Tristan's forbidden love, from a love potion on the voyage to England to a final vision in which the boundary between life and death dissolves.
Fans of Wagner, or anyone curious about the famous Tristan chord, will find plenty to enjoy. Vogt and Nylund also appear in other Opera Kino screenings of this production, at Gloria Biografen on 29 November 2026 and Valby Kino.
