Tristan und Isolde
Appearance
Tristan und Isolde | |
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Muisic drama bi Richard Wagner | |
Ludwig an Malvina Schnorr von Carolsfeld as Tristan an Isolde in the first performance, conductit bi Hans von Bülow | |
Librettist | Richard Wagner |
Leid | German |
Based on | Tristan bi Gottfried von Strassburg |
Premiere | 10 Juin 1865 Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater, Munich |
Tristan und Isolde (Tristan an Isolde, or Tristan an Isolda, or Tristran an Ysolt) is an opera, or muisic drama, in three acts bi Richard Wagner tae a German libretto bi the componer, based lairgely on the romance bi Gottfried von Strassburg. It wis componed atween 1857 an 1859 an premiered at the Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater in Munich on 10 Juin 1865 wi Hans von Bülow conductin. Wagner referred tae the wirk nae as an opera, but cried it "eine Handlung" (leeterally a drama, a plot or an action), which wis the equivalent o the term uised bi the Spaingie playwright Calderón for his dramas.