| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 19 min.)) : digital. |
| Performer |
Narrated by Christopher Cook. |
| Summary |
Tristan und Isolde centres around two lovers who dream of romantic love and yearn for oblivion. No composer had written such a work before. Turning his back on traditional tonality, Wagner changed the course of Western music with Tristan und Isolde. But there's also fact behind the fiction: while he wrote his opera Wagner was in love with another's man's wife, Mathilde Wesendonk. So Tristan and Isolde are also Richard and Mathilde. Christopher Cook explores the making of a masterpiece, the story of lovers gripped by a passion that can only be consummated beyond the grave, a forbidden love that is blind to duty, honour and social obligation. |
| Access |
Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Operas -- Analysis, appreciation.
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Operas -- Stories, plots, etc.
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| Added Author |
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883.
Tristan und Isolde. Selections.
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hoopla digital.
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| Added Title |
Wagner, Tristan und Isolde |
| ISBN |
9781843793342 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1843793342 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11137475 |
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