Wagner's Tristan und Isolde occupies a singular position in the history of ... present an analysis of the Prelude, the music of the drama itself, and Wagner's innovative use of instrumental timbre, ...

In Wagner’s characteristically lengthy exposition, Isolde also recounts that she once lifted ... with huge silent pauses between the opening chords, the famous “Tristan chords.” Later in the Prelude, ...

“Tristan and Isolde” is back at San Francisco Opera, 18 years after the company last performed Richard Wagner’s musical ... from the hushed opening of the prelude through to Isolde’s ...

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

"A sniveling gnome with exceptional talent"— or so the composer was once described. Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Wagner managed to create a mythic idea of himself that has obscured who he really ...

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 ...

Leonard Bernstein’s seemingly ambivalent fascination with Wagner’s Tristan had begun as early as the 1950s with substantial televised excerpts with his New York Philharmonic, Ramón Vinay and Martha ...