Tristan und Isolde - Act 2 - Liebesnacht - Love Duet - Meier - Jerusalem

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In the most inundating, passionate love duet in all of opera, Tristan and Isolde confess and then consummate their love for one another in the refuge of the night.

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Richard Wagner, 1865

Act II Liebesnacht (Love Duet)

00:00 "Isolde! Geliebte!... Tristan! Geliebter!"
08:42 "O eitler Tagesknecht!"
17:34 "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe"
22:25 "Einsam wachend in der Nacht"
24:45 "Lausch, Geliebter!"
31:10 "So starben wir, um ungetrennt"
38:35 "Rette dich, Tristan!"

Bayreuth, 1995

Tristan: Siegfried Jerusalem
Isolde: Waltraud Meier

Conductor: Daniel Barenboim
Director: Heiner Müller

DVD: http://www.amazon.com/Tristan-Isolde-...