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Opera Explained: Wagner's Tristan and Isolde

Written and Read by Christopher Cook

  • Release Date: 31st Jul 2006
  • Catalogue No: 8558195
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Educational, Opera Explained
  • Length: 79 minutes

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Contents

na Not Applicable: An Introduction to... WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

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  • Christopher Cook, Sean Barrett, Elaine Claxton, Laura Paton

Background: 'Since I have never in my life...'

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When Richard Wagner began to compose Tristan und Isolde...

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The music of Lohengrin...

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Composition: Tristan’s sailor looks to the horizon for Cornwall...

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The prose sketch for Tristan und Isolde...

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For the first and only time...

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Wagner’s most beautiful of dreams...

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The opera: Tristan und Isolde was never intended to be...

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Isolde, however, rails against Tristan...

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na Not Applicable: An Introduction to... WAGNER Tristan und Isolde, Act II takes place at night...

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  • Christopher Cook, Sean Barrett, Elaine Claxton, Laura Paton

na Not Applicable: An Introduction to... WAGNER Tristan und Isolde: Then, for a second time in the opera...

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  • Christopher Cook, Sean Barrett, Elaine Claxton, Laura Paton

na Not Applicable: An Introduction to... WAGNER Tristan und Isolde, Before the start of the Third Act...

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  • Christopher Cook, Sean Barrett, Elaine Claxton, Laura Paton

na Not Applicable: An Introduction to... WAGNER Tristan und Isolde

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  • Christopher Cook, Sean Barrett, Elaine Claxton, Laura Paton

Tristan begins to rave again...

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The shepherd boy pipes another...

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