She had, of course, been exposed to and enjoyed a music appreciation course which had included the better known classical works such as `` Tristan und Isolde '', `` Candide '', `` Oklahoma '', `` Nozze de Figaro '', the atomic age singers, Eileen Farrell, Elvis Presley and Geraldine Todd, as well as the curious rhythmic progressions of the Venusians, Capellan visual chromatics and the sonic concerti of the Altairians.

In his mature music dramas, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Der Ring des Nibelungen and Parsifal, he abolished the distinction between aria and recitative in favour of a seamless flow of " endless melody ".

The mezzo-soprano, a term of comparatively recent origin, also has a large repertoire, ranging from the female lead in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas to such heavyweight roles as Brangäne in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde ( these are both roles sometimes sung by sopranos ; there is quite a lot of movement between these two voice-types ).

In a first for the genre, in 2009 the British Glyndebourne Festival Opera company offered an online digital video download of its complete 2007 production of Wagner ’ s Tristan und Isolde.

His two forenames were patriotic musical tributes: " Reinhard " referred to the tragic hero from Amen ( an opera written by his father ), and " Tristan " stems from Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.

The name " Mild und Leise " comes from the opening lines of Liebestod, the climatic ending of Richard Wagner's opera " Tristan und Isolde " s. Lansky has written an essay about Radiohead that appears in The Music and Art of Radiohead, as well as online.

Following the completion of Tristan und Isolde, Wagner resumed work on Die Meistersinger in 1861 with a completely different philosophical outlook from that he held when he first drafted his comedy.

Wagner marks this moment with a direct musical and textual reference to Tristan und Isolde: " Mein Kind, von Tristan und Isolde kenn ' ich ein traurig Stück.

These years were some of Wagner's most difficult: the 1861 Paris production of Tannhäuser was a fiasco, Wagner gave up hope of completing Der Ring des Nibelungen, the 1864 Vienna production of Tristan und Isolde was abandoned after 77 rehearsals, and finally in 1866 Wagner's first wife, Minna died.

Wagner did not resume work on Parsifal for eight years, during which time he completed Tristan und Isolde and began Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.

Wagner referred to " Tristan und Isolde " not as an opera, but called it " Eine Handlung " ( literally drama or plot ), which was the equivalent of the term used by the Spanish playwright Calderón for his dramas.

Wagner's composition of Tristan und Isolde was inspired by his affair with Mathilde Wesendonck and the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer.

Though Wagner was working on his epic Der Ring des Nibelungen, he found himself intrigued by the legend of Tristan und Isolde.

It was some such mood that inspired the conception of a Tristan und Isolde.

I have devised in my mind a Tristan und Isolde, the simplest, yet most full-blooded musical conception imaginable, and with the ‘ black flag ’ that waves at the end I shall cover myself over – to die.

Wagner, at this time, had moved into a cottage built in the grounds of Wesendonck's villa, where, during his work on Tristan und Isolde, he became passionately involved with Mathilde Wesendonck.

Wagner described two of the songs-" Im Treibhaus " and " Träume "-as " Studies for Tristan und Isolde ": " Träume " uses a motif that forms the love duet in Act 2 of " Tristan ", while " Im Treibhaus " introduces a theme that later became the Prelude to Act 3.

Other dishes include Guinevere, Tristan and Isolde after characters in Arthurian legend, much of which takes place in Cornwall.

From the perspective of Arthur, perhaps the most significant effect of this great outpouring of new Arthurian story was on the role of the king himself: much of this 12th-century and later Arthurian literature centres less on Arthur himself than on characters such as Lancelot and Guenevere, Perceval, Galahad, Gawain, and Tristan and Isolde.

" (" My child, I know a sad tale of Tristan and Isolde.

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* Tristran Thorn: The book's main character ( renamed " Tristan " in the movie adaptation ), a half-Faerie creature raised by his father Dunstan Thorn and stepmother Daisy, who he believes to be his mother.

Tristan ( Latin / Brythonic: Drustanus ; ; also known as Tristran, Tristram, etc.

Aleksić used the term " Yugo-Dada " and is known to have been in contact with Raoul Hausmann, Kurt Schwitters, and Tristan Tzara.

They published a magazine for a short time and held an exhibit in Rome, featuring paintings, Tristan Tzara quotes, and original epigrams such as " True Dada is against Dada ".

Tristan da Cunha is an example of a hotspot volcano in the Atlantic Ocean.

The Diarmuid and Grainne story, which is one of the few Fenian prose tales, is a probable source of Tristan and Iseult.

One of these as " stampenie " is found in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan from 1210 in a catalog of Tristan's accomplishments:

St Helena has a land area of 122 square kilometres and is part of a wider territory called Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which includes Ascension Island and the island group of Tristan da Cunha.

Similarly, the climate of Tristan da Cunha is marine, mild and also tempered by trade winds, although the climate is temperate in nature.

The highest point on the island is Diana's Peak at 818 metres ( 2, 684 ft ), though Queen Mary's Peak on Tristan da Cunha is the highest in the British territory at 2, 062 m.

A natural hazard on Tristan da Cunha is active volcanism, though this is not the case on St Helena itself.

St Helena is the most populous part of the wider territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

Saint Helena, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean, is a part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha.

Sutch is survived by a son, Tristan Lord Gwynne Sutch, born in 1975 to the American model Thann Rendessy.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

Tristan Bernard's grandson Christian Bernard is the current Imperator of the Rosicrucian organization AMORC.

Tristan da Cunha () is part of the British overseas territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha which also includes Saint Helena to its north, and equatorial Ascension Island even farther removed.

Tristan da Cunha is a remote volcanic group of islands in the south Atlantic Ocean and the main island of that group.

The St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha Constitution Order 2009 was made by HM the Queen and the Privy Council on 8 July and is expected to come into operation shortly thereafter.

Policing in Tristan da Cunha is undertaken by one full-time police officer and three special constables.