Tristan und Isolde discography
This is an audio and video discography of Tristan und Isolde, an opera by Richard Wagner which was first performed on 10 June 1865 in Munich.
Herbert von Karajan
Karajan's career was given a significant boost in 1935 when he was appointed Germany's youngest "Generalmusikdirektor" and performed as a guest conductor in Bucharest, Brussels, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Paris. In 1938 Karajan made his debut with the Berlin Philharmonic and the Berlin State Opera, conducting "Fidelio". He then enjoyed a major success at the State Opera with "Tristan und Isolde". His performance was hailed by a Berlin critic as "" (the Karajan miracle). The critic asserted that Karajan's "success with [Richard] Wagner's demanding work "Tristan und Isolde" sets himself alongside [Wilhelm] Furtwängler and Victor de Sabata, the greatest opera conductors in Germany at the present time". Receiving a contract with Deutsche Grammophon that same year, Karajan made the first of numerous recordings, conducting the Staatskapelle Berlin in the overture to "The Magic Flute". On 26 July 1938, he married operetta singer Elmy Holgerloef. They divorced in 1942.