Director: Christoph Marthaler; conductor: Eiji Oue (very good and i'd never even heard of him); sets and costumes (eeeeeeekkkk!): Anna Viebrock.

Indeed, a well-thought-out production, but as my first fully-staged Tristan (for some reason I have seen a large number of assorted Lohengrins, out of which the Deutsche Oper Harry Kupfer/Daniel Barenboim production stands out), it was despairingly bleak, with intentionally ugly sets and costumes. (Look how they made poor Nina Stemme, who was a sensational Isolde, look!)