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    Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts
    Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts
    Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts
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    Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts

    By Richard Wagner

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
    Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts
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    Richard Wagner

    Richard Wagner is the former editor of Ad Astra, the journal of the National Space Society. He lives in Northhampton, Massachusetts.

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      Tristan and Isolda Opera in Three Acts - Richard Wagner

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Tristan and Isolda, by Richard Wagner

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      Title: Tristan and Isolda

      Opera in Three Acts

      Author: Richard Wagner

      Release Date: July 8, 2005 [EBook #16250]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK TRISTAN AND ISOLDA ***

      Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Michel Boto and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      Transcriber's note: The German text is not included in this eBook. The music can be clicked on to view larger images.

      GRAND OPERA LIBRETTOS

      GERMAN AND ENGLISH TEXT AND MUSIC OF THE LEADING MOTIVES

      TRISTAN UND ISOLDE

      (TRISTAN AND ISOLDA)

      BY

      WAGNER

      OLIVER DITSON COMPANY

      BOSTON

      CHAS. H. DITSON & CO

      New York

      LYON & HEALY

      Chicago

      TRISTAN AND ISOLDA

      OPERA IN THREE ACTS

      BY

      RICHARD WAGNER

      BOSTON

      OLIVER DITSON COMPANY

      CHAS. H. DITSON & CO.

      NEW YORK

      LYON & HEALY

      CHICAGO

      THE STORY OF TRISTAN AND ISOLDA

      ACT I

      Tristan, a valiant Cornish knight, is bringing Isolda, princess of Ireland, over as a bride for his uncle, King Mark. He is himself in love with her, but owing to a blood feud between them, forces himself to conceal his passion. Isolda, in anger at his seeming unkindness, attempts to poison herself and him, but her attendant, Brangæna, changes the draft for a love potion, which enflames their passion beyond power of restraint.

      ACT II

      Isolda has been wedded to King Mark, but holds stolen interviews with Tristan, during one of which they are surprised, for Tristan has been betrayed by a jealous friend, Melot. Touched by King Mark's bitter reproaches, Tristan provokes Melot to fight and suffers himself to be mortally wounded.

      ACT III

      Tristan's faithful servant, Kurvenal, has carried his wounded master to his native home in Brittany, where he is carefully tended. Isolda has also been sent for, as being skilled above all others in the healing art. The excitement of her approach only hastens Tristan's death, and he breathes his last sigh in her arms. Mark has followed Isolda; he has had matters explained, and is prepared to reunite the lovers, but it is too late. Isolda utters her lament over the body of her lover, and her heart breaks: in death alone are they united.

      TRISTAN AND ISOLDA.

      ACT I.

      [A pavilion erected on the deck of a ship, richly hung with tapestry, quite closed in at back at first. A narrow hatchway at one side leads below into the cabin.]

      SCENE I.

      ISOLDA on a couch, her face buried in the cushions.— BRANGÆNA holding open a curtain, looks over the side of the vessel.

      THE VOICE OF A YOUNG SAILOR (from above as if at the mast-head).

      ISOLDA (starting up suddenly).

      What wight dares insult me?

      (She looks round in agitation.)

      Brangæna, ho!

      Say, where sail we?

      BRANGÆNA (at the opening).

      Bluish stripes

      are stretching along the west:

      swiftly sails

      the ship to shore;

      if restful the sea by eve

      we shall readily set foot on land.

      ISOLDA. What land?

      BRANGÆNA. Cornwall's verdant strand.

      ISOLDA. Never more!

      To-day nor to-morrow!

      BRANGÆNA. What mean you, mistress? say!

      (She lets the curtain fall and hastens to ISOLDA.)

      ISOLDA (with wild gaze).

      O fainthearted child,

      false to thy fathers!

      Ah, where, mother,

      hast given thy might

      that commands the wave and the tempest?

      O subtle art

      of sorcery,

      for mere leech-craft followed too long!

      Awake in me once more,

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