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Tristan und Isolde

8.7(3)19993h 58m1

Inspired by Wagner’s own tortured affair with the wife of his patron, this searing masterwork is based on Arthurian legend and tells of an illicit romance between a Breton nobleman and the Irish princess betrothed to his uncle and king. The composer’s larger-than-life sensibilities are on full display throughout the score: Along with intoxicating orchestral music that surges in tandem with the couple’s burgeoning passion and a chord left symbolically unresolved until the last moments of the opera, the opera also features one of the repertory’s most soaring and ecstatic final climaxes, as Isolde surrenders to a love so powerful that she transcends life itself.

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Released
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Language
German
  • opera
  • opera live performance
  • the metropolitan opera

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Director

Brian Large

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United States of America

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalNR18 Dec 1999

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Tristan und Isolde was released on 18 December 1999.

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