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    Tristan und Isolde
    Tristan und Isolde
    Tristan und Isolde
    Audiobook1 hour

    Tristan und Isolde

    Written by Christopher Cook

    Narrated by Christopher Cook

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    Tristan und Isolde centres around two lovers who dream of romantic love and yearn for oblivion. No composer had written such a work before. Turning his back on traditional tonality, Wagner changed the course of Western music with Tristan und Isolde. But there’s also fact behind the fiction: while he wrote his opera Wagner was in love with another’s man’s wife, Mathilde Wesendonk. So Tristan and Isolde are also Richard and Mathilde. Christopher Cook explores the making of a masterpiece, the story of lovers gripped by a passion that can only be consummated beyond the grave, a forbidden love that is blind to duty, honour and social obligation.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNaxos Audiobooks
    Release dateJul 1, 2006
    ISBN9781843793342
    Tristan und Isolde
    Author

    Christopher Cook

    Christopher Cook is a queer theatre artist and therapist living, creating, and playing in Vancouver. Writing credits include The Better Parts of Mourning, Strip, Gerty—Live! In Concert!, and Quick Bright Things. As a therapist, Chris specializes in counselling members of the queer and trans communities. As a clinician–researcher, Chris's research focuses on exploring the therapeutic significance of artmaking and creativity. Whether through therapy or theatre, Chris's goal is to engage your head, heart and body.

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