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	Synopsis of Tristan und Isolde
		Instead Isolde is enraged by the knight Tristan, whom she sees standing on the afterdeck, avoiding her: by delivering her to his uncle, he shows no regard for her feelings.
		Isolde retorts that she will not accompany Tristan until he apologizes to her for his offenses.
		Tristan recalls the tune, which he heard as a child in connection with his parents' death and which he later associated with his own near-death after the duel with Morold.
	www.metoperafamily.org /metopera/history/stories/synopsis.aspx?id=86 (1138 words)

	Amazon.com: Tristan Und Isolde: Music: Richard Wagner,Karl Böhm,Bayreuther Festspiele Orchester,Birgit Nilsson,Christa ...
		Tristan und Isolde: 'Einsam wachend in der Nacht'
		Tristan und Isolde: 'Noch losch das Licht nicht aus'
		Tristan und Isolde: 'Noch ist kein Schiff zu seh'n!'
	www.amazon.com /Tristan-Isolde-Richard-Wagner/dp/B000001GXS (397 words)

	Neuschwanstein Castle - Castle - Legends - Tristan und Isolde
		Tristan, son of King Meliadus, is seriously injured in a duel while on a quest in Ireland and is healed by Isolde with magic herbs, although the two belong to hostile tribes.
		Tristan wants to marry Isolde, but first he continues his journey to the court of King Marke in Cornwall, who is a brother-in-law of his father.
		The king sends him back to Isolde to win her hand on his behalf, and he is successful.
	www.neuschwanstein.de /english/castle/legends/tristan_isolde.htm (226 words)

	Wagner Operas -- Operas -- Tristan und Isolde (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Instead Isolde is enraged by the knight Tristan, whom she sees standing on the afterdeck, avoiding her: by delivering her to his uncle, he shows no regard for her feelings.
		Tristan und Isolde, Act I Tristan is René Kollo and Isolde, Joahnna Meier, from the Bayreuth Festival, 1983.
		Tristan recalls the tune, which he heard as a child in connection with his parents' death and which he later associated with his own near-death after the duel with Morold.
	www.wagneroperas.com /indextristan.html (1213 words)

	Tristan and Isolde
		Isolde did not believe that the seneschal had killed the dragon, and was distressed that she would have to marry him; she brought her protests to her mother.
		Isolde was not required to undergo the ordeal of the hot iron, but to make her vow in the presence of Arthur and his knights.
		Tristan was the greatest knight in Cornwall; none of the three noblemen (Ganelon, Godwin and Denoalan) had the courage to face Tristan in the battlefield.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/tristan.html (9034 words)

	Opera - Tristan Und Isolde
		Tristan is one of the most popular of the legendary heroes and has been treated of by numerous writers, among them Tennyson, Matthew Arnold and Swinburne.
		Isolde is restored to consciousness, but scarcely listens to his words of pardon and chants her own death-song over the body of her fallen hero.
		The prelude to " Tristan and Isolde " is, however, a selection familiar to all patrons of orchestral concerts and is rightly admired by everyone who is in the least in sympathy with modern music.
	www.oldandsold.com /opera/opera-22.shtml (1193 words)

	Tristan und Isolde (Wagner) - Synopsis
		Deeming her love for Tristan unrequited she determines to end her sorrow by quaffing a death-potion; and Tristan, feeling that the woman he loves is about to be wedded to another, readily consents to share it with her.
		It undulates gracefully through Brangäne’s reply to Isolde’s question as to the vessel’s course, surges wildly around Isolde’s outburst of impotent anger when she learns that Cornwall’s shore is not far distant, and breaks itself in savage fury against her despairing wrath as she invokes the elements to destroy the ship and all upon it.
		When Tristan loses himself in sad memories of Isolde, Kurwenal seeks to comfort him with the news that he has sent a trusty man to Cornwall to bear Isolde to him that she may heal the wound inflicted by Melot as she once healed that dealt Tristan by Morold.
	www.music-with-ease.com /tristan-isolde-synopsis.html (4469 words)

	Tristan Und Isolde
		Isolde understands the allusion to her mother's magical lore, and commands that a casket be brought to her.
		Isolde appears with Brangane and pleads with her to extinguish the torch and thus give the appointed signal to Tristan, who is waiting in concealment.
		Tristan's answer to the sorrowful upbraidings of his royal uncle is to obtain a promise from Isolde to follow him into the "wondrous realm of night." Then, seeing that Marke does not wield the sword of retribution, he makes a feint of attacking Melot, but permits the treacherous knight to reach him with his sword.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles30/opera-13.shtml (4076 words)

	:: INKPOT#70 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: WAGNER Tristan and Isolde - An Inktroduction
		Through Isolde’s narratives in Act 1, we are told that Tristan had killed her betrothed Morold in a battle to win the independence of Cornwall from Ireland.
		Isolde bids him to show her the way and then, Tristan accuses Melot of betrayal and challenges him to a duel in which he allows himself (Tristan) to suffer a mortal wound.
		Tristan recounts in a long soliloquy that by healing him of his wound, Isolde had torn open another in his heart; and that the love potion having been the most poisonous of draughts to have delivered him irrevocably into the pain of longing.
	inkpot.com /classical/wtristan.html (1589 words)

	Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde', reviewed by Robert Anderson. '... the climaxes are prepared with meticulous cunning.'
		The whitewashed ward for Tristan's ravings in Act 3 is appropriate enough, and the dress-period is tactfully indeterminate.
		Nor was it auspicious that when Wagner eventually discovered the Schnorrs, his Tristan died soon after the opening performances in 1865, and Isolde took leave of her senses sufficiently to cause Wagner and Cosima irritation of commendable originality.
		Tristan, then, is not to be tackled lightly, and it seems increasingly seldom that artists of sufficient stature can be cast in the main parts.
	www.mvdaily.com /articles/2005/12/tristan1.htm (263 words)

	The Plot of 'The Flying Dutchman' - Richard Wagner
		Tristan himself was so grievously wounded in the encounter that he pleaded to be placed in a boat with all his weapons, and cast adrift on the sea to die.
		Isolde found him, an unknown wanderer, and nursed him back to convalescence by her vaunted "leechcraft." To conceal his dentity, he metamorphosed his name into Tantris; but Isolde recognised him by a notch in his sword corresponding exactly with a splinter found in her dead lover’s head.
		Tristan was once hers; if she cannot live with him, she will die, and take Tristan along with her "into the night." The cabinet of magic vials is at her hand.
	www.musicwithease.com /tristan-isolde-plot.html (2376 words)

	Wagner, Tristan und Isolde (concert performances), soloists, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Donald Runnicles, Barbican, Dec ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Dominating the opera is the Isolde of the American soprano, Christine Brewer, in an assumption of the role that is breathtaking.
		As her warnings to Isolde become more urgent — culminating in a near-hysterical third warning prefacing Tristan’s arrival — the detail in the voice is magnificently drawn.
		Kurwenal’s love for Tristan in Act III, for example, was notable for this baritone’s ability to meld a voice that dripped with pathos-garnered concern amid benign incredulity.
	www.musicweb.uk.net /SandH/2003/Feb03/tristan.htm (1298 words)

	Tristan und Isolde \| Plot \| MTV Movies
		Tristan is dispatched to bring the proposal to Ireland and does not find out the identity of the unnamed princess until he meets her.
		Tristan turns to philanthropic brigandry, a la Robin Hood, and one day he is fatally wounded in a fight - lingering on for some time afterwards.
		Meanwhile, Isolde is faced with the fact that her return did nothing to bring peace, and during an attack on the castle by Irish forces, she escapes to go live with Tristan.
	www.mtv.com /movies/movie/114076/plot.jhtml (285 words)

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		Isolde, feeling she is being mocked angrily invokes the elements to destroy the ship and all upon her.
		Isolde had sworn to avenge Morold's death and, while tending to his wounds, discovered that the splinter matched a notch in his sword.
		Tristan enters and the two declare their love for one another; they gradually come to realise that only in death can their love be fulfilled.
	www.pamag.com /Guide/T/Tristan_und_Isolde.shtml (1029 words)

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	Amazon.co.uk: Tristan Und Isolde - Placido Domingo: Music: Richard Wagner,Placido Domingo,Nina Stemme,Mihoko ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The new EMI Tristan Und Isolde, composed by Wagner, may well be one of the last starry CD opera recordings - and marks a high watermark in Plácido Domingo's unparalleled career.
		According to Stemme, Tristan is perhaps not quite as demanding for the soprano as for the tenor; yet great Isoldes are still thin on the ground, with perhaps the greatest having been her compatriot Birgit Nilsson.
		Her Isolde I think, gets perfectly well the anger she feels for not being able to controll her life and be always forced to live it in the way others want.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Tristan-Isolde-Placido-Richard-Wagner/dp/B000A2ES88 (3499 words)

	classical music - andante - bayreuth's barren tristan und isolde
		Isolde and BrangÃ¤ne are frumps in dresses and pleated skirts which could be from the 1940s or 1950s.
		Isolde is enveloped in a 1920s wrap at the end of Act I and appears in slacks and a trench coat in Act III.
		The opera ends with Tristan dead on the floor, Isolde pulling the covers from his bed over her head, and King Marke, BrangÃ¤ne, Kurwenal (not dead, as Wagner wanted him), Melot (ditto), the Steersman and the Shepherd with their noses pressed up against the walls.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25845 (1224 words)

	Cheryl North Reviews Tristan und Isolde at the Stuttgart Opera"
		Finally it became clear that most of the men onstage were the chorus; the fl-clad man was Tristan; the beige-suited fellow was King Mark; the Lady-in-Red was Brangane and the short dark-haired lass was Isolde.
		Isolde, sung by Gunnila Stephen-Kallin of Sweden, had a voice that cut like steel through the broad 1,396-seat theater.
		But it differed from anything I've seen because of the way it was staged: unconventional with a capital U. The near static stage movement seemed to sensitize one's consciousness to be tuned to the tiniest, most subtle onstage movement or light change, allowing the music to assume an almost engulfing power.
	www.northworks.net /c_reviews_tristan_stuttgart.htm (1203 words)

	Tristan and Isolde (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Isolde of Ireland, also known as Isolt, Isold, Iseult, or Ysolde, was the daughter of Angwish, King of Ireland.
		Tristan (Tristram) whose name means "sorrow", given to him because of the loss of his mother at his birth, was a noble knight.
		Sometime during the voyage, Isolde and Tristan drank the potion by accident and fell forever in love.
	www.angelfire.com /me2/legends (331 words)

	artnet.com Magazine Features - The Tristan Project (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Tristan Project, as it is called, debuted at Los Angeles' Disney Hall as both a work in progress and an event unto itself on Dec. 3, and was repeated on the weekend of Dec. 10-12.
		Isolde, who saved Tristan's life without knowing his identity, feels betrayed and hopes to kill him with a death potion.
		In April, with no firm date as yet, the three acts of Tristan und Isolde will be presented in a single performance with Sellars' staging and Viola's video at the Paris Opera.
	www.artnet.com /Magazine/features/drohojowska-philp/drohojowska-philp12-15-04.asp (831 words)

	Walt Disney Concert Hall - Performance Details
		Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde opens with a quietly unstable chord in the woodwinds (over a sighing motif in the cellos) that is as emotionally charged as it is musically ambiguous.
		The influence of Tristan was inescapable for most artists of its generation and those formed in the crucible of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		Examples of Tristanism could be cited almost indefinitely, as artists continue to deal with the story and its musical ramifications.
	wdch.laphil.com /tix/performance_detail.cfm?id=1829 (434 words)

	`Tristan und Isolde' heads to NYC Armory - Boston.com
		Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is heading to an unusual venue -- Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue.
		NEW YORK --Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is heading to an unusual venue -- Manhattan's Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue.
		Lincoln Center is presenting "Tristan" as part of its 41st "Great Performers" season, which opens Oct. 7 with Bernard Haitink conducting the London Symphony Orchestra in Beethoven's Second and Third Symphonies, part of a complete cycle over five programs that run through Oct. 13.
	www.boston.com /ae/music/articles/2006/01/25/tristan_und_isolde_heads_to_nyc_armory?mode=PF (509 words)

	Wagner: Tristan Und Isolde / De Billy, Et Al Classical
		Tristan und Isolde: Wie lachen sie mir "Narrative and Curse" (19:23)
		This selection is part of a medley which also includes "Tristan und Isolde: Hörst du sie noch?." This selection ends with "...lachend sie zu löschen zag ich nicht!" Grosses Sendesaal, ORF-Haus, Vienna (02/2004)
		Tristan und Isolde: Mild und leise "Liebestod" (6:08)
	www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/music/pid/6829797/a/Wagner%3A+Tristan+und+Isolde+%28Highlights%29+%2F+De+Billy%2C+et+al.htm (465 words)

	Bernstein's Tristan und Isolde: Unbewusst, hoechste Lust!
		It was the climax of his collaboration with his beloved Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and he thought it to be his most important recording activity of the year.
		For the project, Bernstein chose the tenor Peter Hofmann to be his Tristan; and for his Isolde, he chose the legendary dramatic soprano Hildegard Behrens.
		In her engagingly candid remarks, she shares with trademark spontaneity her most powerful memories of Bernstein the consummate musician and of versatile collaborations that crossed from the operatic - as in Isolde, into the symphonic - as in Kaddish, and into the theatric - as in Marlene Dietrich.
	www.fanfaire.com /leonardbernstein/tristan.html (343 words)

	Tristram and Isolde. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Sir Tristram is sent to Ireland to bring Isolde the Fair back to Cornwall to be the bride of his uncle, King Mark.
		Deceived into believing she is not coming, Tristram dies of despair, and Isolde, on finding her lover dead, dies of grief beside him.
		Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde is based on the version of Gottfried von Strassburg.
	www.bartleby.com /65/tr/Tristram.html (350 words)

	iClassics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		James Levine, whose career as Artistic Director with the Metropolitan Opera began 34 years ago, conducts the Metropolitan Orchestra through an absolutely stunning 1999 performance of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (not seen at the Met since the 1983-84 season).
		Tristan und Isolde remains a marathon opera, requiring total commitment and concentration from the performers as well as the audience.
		From beginning to end, this opera seems to stand as the ultimate example of "delayed gratification." With the music beginning inside the ominous "Tristan chord" in the Prelude, Wagner never seems to allow for that satisfactory feeling of climax and resolution until Isolde sings the sublime "Liebestod" at the very end.
	iclassics.com /featureArticle?contentId=1167 (657 words)

	Richard Wagner - Libretti - Tristan und Isolde
		Brangäne, kaum ihrer mächtig, wendet sich in den Hintergrund, Isolde, ihr ganzes Gefühl zur Entscheidung zusammenfassend, schreitet langsam mit grosser Haltung dem Ruhebett zu, auf dessen Kopfende sich stützend sie den Blick fest dem Eingange zuwendet.
		Isolde, summoning up all her strength for the crisis, moves slowly and with great dignity towards the couch and, leaning against it, fixes her gaze on the entrance.
		Isolde urges her on with more emphatic gestures.
	www.rwagner.net /libretti/tristan/e-tristan-a1s5.html (529 words)

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