Opera

Tristan Und Isolde

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Richard Wagner’s *Tristan und Isolde* is a three-act music drama drawn from medieval legend, centered on two nobles bound by duty and undone by desire after a fateful drink. Written in the late 1850s and first staged in Munich in 1865, it advances through continuous musical argument rather than set-piece arias. In New York City, the work has long been a touchstone of Wagner performance at the Metropolitan Opera, where its demands on singers and orchestra have shaped local operatic standards. Its restless harmony remains a pivot point between Romantic opera and modernism.