Quotes About Isolde

They both laughed and drank to each other; they had never tasted sweeter liquor in all their lives. And in that moment they fell so deeply in love that their hearts would never be divided. So the destiny of Tristram and Isolde was ordained.

The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion.

way, is music. I hear that longing in countless pieces: in Barber's Adagio, in the "In Paradisum" from the Fauré Requiem, in the "Liebestod" from Tristan and Isolde; in Max Steiner's film scores, in folk songs like "Blow the Wind Southerly" and "Shenandoah

If it really was Queen Elizabeth who demanded to see Falstaff in a comedy, then she showed herself a very perceptive critic. But even in The Merry Wives of Windsor , Falstaff has not and could not have found his true home because Shakespeare was only a poet. For that he was to wait nearly two hundred years till Verdi wrote his last opera. Falstaff is not the only case of a character whose true home is the world of music; others are Tristan, Isolde and Don Giovanni.

The discrepancy between the vacationists' good times and Isolde's unfortunate experience is more than disgusting