Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, act I - So, this, then, is the end - The Victrola book of the opera

Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, act I - Isolde: "So, this, then, is the end! Tristan, farewell!"
Identifier: victrolabookofop00vict (find matches)
Title: The Victrola book of the opera : stories of one hundred and twenty operas with seven-hundred illustrations and descriptions of twelve-hundred Victor opera records
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Victor Talking Machine Company Rous, Samuel Holland
Subjects: Operas
Publisher: Camden, N.J. : Victor Talking Machine Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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2-inch, $1.25 The first act shows the deck of the ship which isconveying Isolde and Tristan to Cornwall, she havingaccepted King Marks proposal, made through his 510 was abandoned after fifty-seven rehearsals. Both thePrelude and the Love Death were performed in concertsbefore the production of the opera in Munich. The Pre-lude was played for the first time at Prague, March 12,1859, and again at Leipsic, June 1, 1859. Wagner himselffrequently conducted the Prelude and Love Death inthe concerts given by him in 1863. The opera did not find its way to America untilDecember I, 1886, when the late Albert Niemann madehis American debut as Tristan; and since that time ithas grown steadily in popularity. This great drama of love and hatred, with its won-derful music, is now quite generally admitted to be thefinest of the masters operas. Written at the time ofWagners own love affair (with Mathilde Wesendonck),it is supposed thathe sought to em-phasize the fact Mimin it RENE DALMORES AS TRISTAN
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Isolde: So, this, then, is the end! Tristan, farewell! (Tristan and Isolde, Act I.) VICTROLA BOOK OF THE OPERA-TRISTAN AND ISOLDE nephew. During the voyage, however, the refusal of Tristan to seeher, the exultation of the sailors over the killing of Morold (whichfreed Cornwall from its subjection to Isoldes royal father), and de-testation of the loveless marriage she is about to contract, infuriatethe Princess, and she resolves to die and drag Tristan down to deathwith her. She tells Tristan she is aware of his crime in killing herlover, and demands vengeance. He admits her right to kill him andoffers his sword, but she bids her maid, Brangdne, prepare two cupsof poison from her casket. Brangdne, unwilling to see her mistressdie, secretly substitutes for the poison a love potion, the effect ofwhich is immediate, and the lovers sink into each others arms justas the ship approaches the shore and the King arrives to claim his bride.Act II takes place in the garden outside Isoldes chamber