Liebestod
Musical composition by Richard Wagner
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" Liebestod " ( [ˈliːbəsˌtoːt] German for "love death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner . It is the climactic end of the opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.
The music is often used in film and television productions of doomed lovers. [1]
Partial text
Mild und leise
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Softly and gently
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References
- ↑ "Quoting Tristan: Echoes of Wagner over 150 years of music and film" by Rachel Beaumont, Royal Opera House , 3 December 2014
Further reading
- Bronfen, Elisabeth , Liebestod und Femme fatale. Der Austausch sozialer Energien zwischen Oper, Literatur und Film , Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2004. ISBN 3-518-12229-0
External links
- Act III: Mild und leise wie er lächelt : from Tristan und Isolde , Wagner's autograph manuscript in the Richard Wagner Foundation
- "Isolde's Liebestod", act 3, score and transcriptions : Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
- Full text and some performances
- "Liebestod", concert performance on YouTube , Birgit Nilsson
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