The production was originally scheduled to be directed by Willy Decker, who staged the Met’s boldly unconventional production of Verdi’s “La Traviata,” but the Met said he had withdrawn, citing health reasons. The Australian heldentenor Stuart Skelton will sing Tristan, and the bass René Pape will play King Marke, they said.
The new “Tristan” will be conducted by Simon Rattle, the chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, in a rare Met appearance, and will star Nina Stemme, one of the world’s most sought-after Wagnerian sopranos, as Isolde, Met officials said. The inventive Polish director Mariusz Trelinski, whose eerie, film noir-influenced double bill of Tchaikovsky’s “Iolanta” and Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” at the Metropolitan Opera is winning praise, has received an even bigger assignment form the company: a new production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” that will open the Met’s season in 2016.
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