Liebestod

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Liebestod is the transcendent final aria from Richard Wagner’s opera "Tristan und Isolde," renowned for its intense expression of love and death and its groundbreaking harmonic language.

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instanceOf aria
concert piece
opera excerpt
alternateDesignation Isoldes Liebestod
Mild und leise, wie er lächelt
associatedConcept Tristan chord
linked to: the Tristan chord
basedOn Tristan und Isolde legend
linked to: Tristan und Isolde
characterAssociated Isolde
Tristan
composer Richard Wagner
composerNationality German
culturalSignificance influential in the development of musical modernism
milestone of 19th-century opera
emotionalCharacter ecstatic
tragic
transcendent
famousRecordingArtists Birgit Nilsson
Jessye Norman
Kirsten Flagstad
Nina Stemme
linked to: Birgit Nilsson
genre opera aria
harmonicInnovation delayed resolution
harmonicStyle chromatic
tonally ambiguous
language German
movementType final aria
opera Tristan und Isolde
orchestration full Romantic orchestra
partOf Tristan und Isolde
period Romantic era
positionInWork concluding scene
premiereConductor Hans von Bülow
premiereCountry Germany
premiereLocation Munich
premiereOperaHouse Königliches Hof- und Nationaltheater, Munich
sungBy Isolde
textAuthor Richard Wagner
theme death
erotic longing
love
transcendence
union in death
titleMeaning love-death
typicalPerformanceContext opera performance
orchestral concert arrangement
voiceType soprano
workNumberInComposerOutput part of Wagner’s mature music dramas

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