Opera Explained: Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde - CD

An Introduction to... WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

 

1. Background: 'Since I have never in my life...'

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2. When Richard Wagner began to compose Tristan und Isolde...

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3. The music of Lohengrin...

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4. Composition: Tristan’s sailor looks to the horizon for Cornwall...

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5. The prose sketch for Tristan und Isolde...

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6. For the first and only time...

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7. Wagner’s most beautiful of dreams...

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8. The opera: Tristan und Isolde was never intended to be...

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9. Isolde, however, rails against Tristan...

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10. Act II takes place at night...

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11. Then, for a second time in the opera...

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12. Before the start of the Third Act...

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13. Tristan begins to rave again...

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14. The shepherd boy pipes another...

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