Richard Wagner 's musical vision of his "loveliest of dreams": love, death and transfiguration.
Yannis Kokkos 's production by Scottish
Opera, from the Theatre Royal, Glasgow, is presented by Clive Bennett. Sung in German.
Scottish Opera Chorus and Orchestra, conductor Richard Armstrong Actl
6.30 During the interval,
Jeremy J Beadle considers the symbolism of night and day in Tristan und Isolde.
6.55 Act 2
8.25 Wagneriana "After lunch, in the children's presence,
Richard plays part of the second act of Tristan.
I literally shudder at the power of genius."
(Cosima Wagner )
Recollections, experiences, myths and miscellaneous encounters with the music and the man who made it.
9.15 Act 3