Tristan und Isolde
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Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner set to a German libretto by the composer, loosely based on Gottfried von Strassburg's medieval 12th-century romance Tristan
Ludwig Schnorr von Carolsfeld and his wife Malvina starring as Tristan and Isolde in the first performance
Photo of Wagner in Brussels, 1860
Painting of Mathilde Wesendonck (1850) by Karl Ferdinand Sohn
Photo of Hans von Bülow, who conducted the premiere
Cosima Wagner
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Francesca Gaetana Cosima Wagner was a German businesswoman who was the daughter of the Hungarian composer and pianist Franz Liszt and Franco-German romantic author Marie d'Agoult. She became the secon
Franz Liszt, depicted at the time of his affair with Marie d'Agoult
Princess Carolyne zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, seen here with her daughter Marie, exerted a powerful influence on Cosima's upbringing
Hans von Bülow, photographed in middle age