Tristan und Isolde

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Tristan und Isolde is Richard Wagner’s monumental 19th-century opera that reimagines the medieval legend of tragic, transcendent love through groundbreaking music and harmony.

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Tristan und Isolde canonical 3
Tristan & Isolde 1
Tristan and Iseult 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf music drama
opera
basedOn Tristan and Iseult legend
medieval romance
character Brangäne
King Marke
Kurwenal
Melot
commissionedBy Ludwig II of Bavaria
composer Richard Wagner
compositionEndYear 1859
compositionStartYear 1857
famousExcerpt Liebestod
Prelude
followedBy Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
genre Romantic opera
influenced Arnold Schoenberg
Claude Debussy
Gustav Mahler
Richard Strauss
language German
librettist Richard Wagner
movement German Romanticism
notableFor advanced chromatic harmony
influence on tonal harmony
the Tristan chord
numberOfActs 3
orchestration large Romantic orchestra
period 19th century
placeInOeuvre middle-period Wagner opera
precededBy Lohengrin
premiereCity Munich
premiereCountry Kingdom of Bavaria
premiereDate 1865-06-10
premierePlace Bavarian State Opera
surface form: Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater, Munich
protagonist Isolde
Tristan
publisher Schott Music
setting Brittany
Cornwall
structure Prelude and three acts
theme death and longing
tragic love
transcendent love
uses leitmotifs
vocalForces bass
mezzo-soprano
soprano
tenor

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The Waste Land alludesTo Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner notableWork Tristan und Isolde
Richard Wagner composerOf Tristan und Isolde
Sir Tristan appearsIn Tristan und Isolde
this entity surface form: Tristan and Iseult legend
Chapelizod associatedWithLegend Tristan und Isolde
this entity surface form: Tristan and Iseult
Kevin Reynolds notableWork Tristan und Isolde
this entity surface form: Tristan & Isolde