From 1852 until 1858, the Wagners lived next to the Wesendoncks in Zurich and an intense relationship developed between Wagner and Mathilde, subsequently reflected in the impossible love at the heart ...

R ichard Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde” is well known for the challenges it presents for singers, particularly those in the ...

Eun Sun King's conducting is so masterful, she makes Wagner's five-hour tale of dramatic love and death almost fun.

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of Western culture. What Nietzsche called the 'sweet and terrible infinity' of its basic nexus of longing and death has ...

From the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde.

Rooted in medieval legend, Tristan und Isolde is about a love that transcends all, even death itself. Though Wagner finished work on his score in 1859, the work was not performed until 1865 due ...

Nicholas Lehnhoff’s production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde returned to Glyndebourne last night in its fourth revival, which proved to be richly deserved. It breathes a riveting mythic ...

Through the power of a love potion, Tristan and Isolde have fatefully fallen for ... captured in Richard Wagner's opera, which premiered in 1865, in which the music becomes almost the sole carrier ...

The legendary folktale about the affair of an English warrior and an Irish princess in war-torn medieval Britain comes to life in this thrilling romantic epic, starring James Franco and Sophia ...

A tragedy about the immoral love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseut/Isolde. It depicts Tristan's mission to escort Iseult from Ireland to Cornwall to marry his uncle ...