Tristan und Isolde, Opéra National de Lorraine

At first, a simple chord in the prelude sets tonality trembling and opens the doors to night. Bidding farewell to dry land. Plunging into the unknown. Drowning. The song tears us away from ourselves and gives us a glimpse of both the past and the future. Everything is already contained in the first glance exchanged by the lovers.

During four hours of musical and mystical experience, Tristan and Isolde, Isolde and Tristan, will hate each other, love each other, separate, die and be reunited. In 1865, Richard Wagner - inspired by his passion for Mathilde Wesendonck - offered the world what was to become one of the monuments of Western art.

If tragedy is for kings, then Tristan und Isolde is a tragedy: there is Marke, there is the kingdom, there is war and there is the peace that is meant to be sealed by the marriage of the King…