#liebestod — Public Fediverse posts
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A lovers tryst leads to a pact: Tristan proposes the Liebestod, or love-death (aka double or simultaneous suicide), to Isolde. "Thus might we die, together, ever one, without end." She consents. But then Tristan breaks the pact by dying alone, before her. Isolde dies after him, after singing an exquisite aria over his body.
The aria that ends the opera is commonly (mis)called the #Liebestod. In fact, Wagner called it Isolde's #Transfiguration.
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Karl Böhm's production of #Wagner's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at the Roman Theatre of Orange in France in 1973 was my intro to #Opera. Not live, unfortunately, but on lo-res DVD in 2010.
Despite the lo-fi sound quality, the music & the performances of Jon Vickers & Birgit Nilsson blew me away. The emotionally charged prelude, the rapturous love duet in Act II, Isolde's #Transfiguration (the misnamed #Liebestod) at the climax...
The desire for self-obliteration has never sounded so exquisite.
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Auditorium du Musée d'#Orsay, 17/11/2022
#Concert "#Musique et #Munch - la Frise de la vie": #Grieg, #RichardStrauss, #RobertSchumann, #Wagner
Marianne Beate #Kielland, #mezzosoprano
Nils Anders #Mortensen, #piano
Image du programme: tableau d'Edvard Munch, "Le Soleil"
#musiqueclassique #classicalmusic #romantic #lyrique #Lied #mélodie #Liebestod -
Auditorium du Musée d'#Orsay, 17/11/2022
#Concert "#Musique et #Munch - la Frise de la vie": #Grieg, #RichardStrauss, #RobertSchumann, #Wagner
Marianne Beate #Kielland, #mezzosoprano
Nils Anders #Mortensen, #piano
Image du programme: tableau d'Edvard Munch, "Le Soleil"
#musiqueclassique #classicalmusic #romantic #lyrique #Lied #mélodie #Liebestod