GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: "Tristan und Isolde" Broadcast in HD starting June 1, 2008 on PBS (check local listings) Composer: Richard Wagner Librettist: Richard Wagner Production: Dieter Dorn Conductor: James Levine Performers: Deborah Voigt (Isolde), Robert Dean Smith (Tristan), Eike Wilm Schulte (Kurwenal), Matti Salminen (King Marke) Synopsis: Richard Wagner’s epic Tristan und Isolde is conducted by James Levine in this visually spare and dramatically gripping interpretation. Join GREAT PERFORMANCES at the Met for this special presentation, when Deborah Voigt—one of the world’s most celebrated Wagnerian sopranos—undertakes the iconic role of Isolde for the first time at the Met. Robert Dean Smith, a veteran Tristan of the Bayreuth Festival, portrays the other half of the archetypal couple on this transcendent theatrical journey. Funding for GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: "Tristan und Isolde" has been provided by Toll Brothers, the Glibert S. Kahn and John J. Noffo Kahn Foundation, the Irene Diamond Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS. Top banner photo: Deborah Voigt as Tristan in the Met's "Tristan und Isolde." photo credits: Ken Howard/The Metropolitan Opera James Levine, Conductor Deborah Voigt, Soprano Robert Dean Smith, Tenor Eike Wilm Schulte, Baritone Browse our guide about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.