The Washington, D.C.-based National Symphony Orchestra and Music Director Gianandrea Noseda will perform Act II of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde on Friday, November 15 at 8 p.m. EST in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. The concert will be livestreamed free of charge on medici.tv as well as on the National Symphony Orchestra’s and Kennedy Center’s Facebook pages and at the Kennedy Center’s website. (After the November 15 livestream, video of the concert will be available to subscribers and members of medici.tv.) Noseda leads a cast featuring soprano Christine Goerke in the role of Isolde. Making their NSO debuts with this program are tenor Stephen Gould as Tristan, mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as Brangaene, bass Günther Grossböck as King Marke, tenor Neal Cooper as Melot, and baritone Hunter Enoch as Kurwenal. The program will also be performed in New York City at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall on November 17 as part of Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival, marking the NSO and Noseda’s first appearance together there.
Posted November 15, 2019
