TristanAndIsolde

Why This Moment Works: Wagner — Tristan und Isolde (Prelude)

Some music gives us a sense of arrival. Tension builds, reaches a destination, and finally settles. Wagner's Tristan und Isolde offers something different — music that continually delays resolution.The opera tells the story of forbidden love between Tristan and Isolde, a desire that grows precisely because it can never be...