Tristan und Isolde - End of Act 3 - Liebestod

[@clear-vision]

Wonderful. My dad passed away in 1993, this was his favourite piece of music, he loved listening to Kirsten Flagstad. The Furtwangler / Flagstad recording was my introduction to Wagner, I was hooked from that moment. My dad would have been blown away by Waltraud Meier.

[@davideargenteri8510]

Furtwangler, a mio parere il più grande interprete di Wagner (fra quelli che ho ascoltato)

[@agatharuncible5876]

I was listening to this on the subway and had to put my sunglasses on so no one would see my eyes watering and think I was a crazy person. What a perfect and moving performance of this already devastating piece of music. I can't!

[@giuseppepupella479]

you are not alone, never. don't forget, never

[@AP-lc5ys]

Nobody with a soul would blame you for crying during Isoldes Lovedeath.

[@remymannie]

hey you are exageratting....yoyu are so ridiculous

[@amber40494]

The voices are so clear and beautiful, too!

[@lupash]

So good she knows what's going on harmonically and she displays it through her character. She actually exhales as the last Tristan chord finally, after four hours, resolves.

[@victoriasherman4756]

Magnificent!!❤❤❤❤

[@Ddr-smith7947]

Yes exactly, it's so important!

[@Moondra3]

Still after all these years this final act still manages to make me cry. If I am driving and this comes on the radio, here come the tears! I usually only go the Wagner operas , took a bud of mine to see this ( he wanted to see what the big deal was about), asked him to store tissues in his pockets and sure enough, once Isolde starts that first note of this, here come the tears....But I looked over in the dark and there was a tiny tear in his face. He was floored by this whole opera. And like me he never missed a Wagner opera performance whenever it hits town.

[@utebrandenbusch5666]

Moondra3 😏

[@wilsonwatt9283]

Hopefully you have not let Wagner prevent you from seeing/hearing/experiencing the emotive power of composers from Vivaldi to Ades and Heggie in opera. What a shame if you reject so much beauty solely to hear Wagner.

[@moondra3481]

@@wilsonwatt9283 LOL of course I go to other operas!!! I just prefer Wagner. Aida and La Boheme are also my favorites, Mozart Don Giovanni is pretty awesome to watch when it comes to town.

[@MD-md4th]

😂 Who the hell takes a “bud” to the opera??? And you told him to bring kleenex? A butt-bud I presume?

[@labemolmineur]

How did I live before this. How will I live after this.

[@LWOPP]

That is the question.

[@djmattese]

14:11 - The feeling of complete peace and acceptance that life is over, and know matter how painful it was, it was beautiful.

[@worldtipper]

Very well said.

[@rdred8693]

God this is deep.

[@demcadman]

I'm crying at this point.

[@philippeberruyer6556]

@@rdred8693 God seams here in an "Instant

[@philippeberruyer6556]

@@rdred8693 . . . Un instant de béatitude, sinon de beauté aveuglante.

[@china1013]

I was like, damn this lady sings it as well as Waltraud Meier. Then I realized it was Waltraud Meier. LoL.

[@jmballestra7607]

Sublime musique , magistralement interprétée !!!! ..." Isoldes Liebesbestod " est incontestablement l'un des sommets de l'art lyrique !!!! Il y en a bien d'autres chez le génial maître de Bayreuth !!!! "

[@Jeremy-u3o]

Incredible and awe inspiring. It gives me goose bumps every time I hear it.

[@MrMcCorby]

The most emotional love song which was ever written.

[@Timothy4186]

Absolutely no one on earth sings this aria better than Waltraud Meier. What you just heard is as good as it gets, and that's perfection.

[@gglucs1799]

Have you heard Flagstad's? Its also marvelous

[@Timothy4186]

@@gglucs1799 I searched "Flagstad's aria tristen and isolde" and nothing came up. Can you be more specific? I want to hear it.

[@gglucs1799]

@@Timothy4186 Search "WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod (Furtwängler/Flagstad)". Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYKyaIR_nLOpd5Isi=WuxFYbG1k76-xi-5

[@gglucs1799]

@@Timothy4186 Search " WAGNER - Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod (Furtwängler/Flagstad)". Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/iYKyaIR_nLOpd5I&pp=ygUIZmxhZ3N0YWQ%3D

[@gabrelconner9146]

Every voice in this production is just PURE GOLd. So vibrant and full of spin and richness it just pierces the soul. Absolutely mind blowing ❤ Wow

[@hitchcock431]

Wunderbare Musik! Der Höhepunkt kommt bei 13:56, als die Bläser zu einer wunderbaren Melodie anheben, in welcher soviel Sehnsucht liegt und welche wie aus dem Jenseits klingt. Die Oper endet in einer wunderschönen, friedlichen Harmonie.

[@sopranosd]

My God these voices! They are incredible!

[@Altonahh10]

Barenboim is a genius. His Wagner is so heartfelt, alive, emotional and I always understood why he loved to work with Waltraud Meier and her understanding of the necessity for a warm and touching tone Wagner needs.

[@stillstanding6031]

I've come to believe that Barenboim is the greatest of the modern Wagner conductors...and this is a pretty crowded field.

[@noeldunsky]

This is so true...Barenboim FEELS Wagner in the depths of his SOUL...

[@mariawimmer4541]

And he worked very carefully an every little detail in the music and in the text.

[@StephenLyons-tl8ie]

There are no words adequate enough to do justice to this work of art.

[@randykern1842]

That resolution is absolutely shattering

[@eugeniobarrancoperez8718]

Lo vi en 1986 en Santiago d E chile en 1986. Inolvidable!!!!!

[@sharpsvilleBill]

I have never heard anything in my life more magnificent and enchanting than this opera and Ms. Meier's glorious voice. Brava and bravo.

[@bonazzaenrico]

Waltraud Meier ... fantastic! ...After many years attempting to get the tickets, this july I'll be in Bayreuth listening to this live!! Looking forward !!

[@barbarafrancini3980]

Lucky you!!

[@noeldunsky]

So how was it at Bayreuth? :)

[@bonazzaenrico]

@@noeldunsky ciao Noel! It has been amazing, 4 hours of show are really long, but there are long pauses between the acts. Some parts, were difficult to follow because of the language (I don’t speak German), the theatre is uncomfortable and hot, but the atmosphere is magic. Something that surprised me was the clarity of the voices and the volume (low) of the music, because of the position of the orchestra. I knew it would be different from other theaters but I wasn’t expecting that different. A part these impressions, Thielemann conducted perfectly, Wagner’s music is always astonishing and the Liebestod listened live has been overwhelming. I surely will try to get other tickets in the future.

[@terryenglish662]

Tristan und Isolde is for me the best opera ever. I love all of the music and the Liebestod (Death Song) is extremely moving, raw and emotional. I have heard many versions of it, including the great Birgit Nielson. This is now my favorite version. The lady singing is beyond compare! I would love to see this opera in person.

[@valhalla7408]

Enjoyed your comment, just had to point out that _liebestod_ means "love death" ... only in death are the lovers Tristan and Isolde finally together (which I never took seriously as a libretto, because death _separates_ , it doesn't "unite" which is why religions offer a "life after death"; I prefer to think of this as the culmination of their passion, finally resolving in an emotional crescendo).

[@Wayland444]

Birgit Nielson was THE GREATEST interpreter of this song.

[@sarastroposa5198]

Death separates if you're a Christian; Buddhists have a different approach

[@MrLextune]

The lady singing is Waltraud Meier.

[@dreamstate207]

@@sarastroposa5198 You're exactly correct, thank you. Namaste

[@DominicNanni]

This piece never gets old. It is forever emotional and moving. It always brings me to tears.

[@artbagley1406]

"... wafting about me, ... clouds of heavenly fragrance? ... to expire in sweet perfume? ... in the vast wave of the world's breath, to drown, to sink unconscious -- supreme bliss!" HOW GRANDIOSE! HOW AWE-INSPIRING! HOW PASSIONATE! And yet HOW TENDER, all at the same time!! This is my first exposure to an operatic performance of this Wagner "passage"; usually I simply watch an orchestral performance of the piece. THIS IS BEING BOOKMARKED!!! I can hardly see the monitor thru my joyous tears to type this reply. WUNDERBAR!!! DANKE!!! With such a less-than-elaborate backdrop, beautiful in its simplicity!

[@waltergaletto8636]

Muchas veces lo escucho con auriculares cuando voy a dormir ,cierro los hojos y me concentro unicamente en esta musica celestial y llega un momento en el que paresco flotar ,momento fantastico , unico , cuanto talento para describir un momento tan tremendo de la vida y tan celestial , envuelto en la musica y letra ,que suerte poder disfrutar de esta genialidad

[@MD-md4th]

😂

[@mikemullen6268]

I weep at the ending.. Amazing how music can move one person to such tears.. How hauntingly beautiful..

[@sirphineasluciusambercromb9114]

I became a mad Dutchman after viewing and hearing this performance. Danke schön.

[@wilsonwatt9283]

Meier here does what Callas did in the Visconti Lucia mad scene. She shows that movement is not necessary if the voice has the true emotive power of the composer within its scope. Less is more is a great principle of architecture that should be applied more often to opera direction/production.

[@alfredoloyola921]

You are right 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@kaidipan7269]

TBH this is the first time my eye filled with tears for over ten years, this is overwhelming

[@lifeisgood3087]

This just transported me to an unimaginable dimension.

[@EncantosDoCafe]

I hope that when I reach my 60s, I can show my grandchildren and remember my youth.

[@timothyscanlon5156]

A final resolution after...5 hours! Definitely worth the wait....

[@desantiproducciones]

I cry everytime i hear this musical gift to our ears. I can't resist it.

[@steveburnett6333]

All the years of rock and roll, THIS is the only time police showed up at my house. Building a Triumph chopper back in the day, 3 AM, 85 degrees out, this opera blasting away. As an album side ended, I slid the trans cluster into the case, great timing. AHEM!!! Ooops... 'Morning Officer, I'll turn it down some...'. He smiles and says I have been to a lot of loud music complaints, but NEVER to an opera! what in hell are you listening to? Any more questions?

[@tuttt99]

I always crank Wagner when I am cleaning house

[@nigelturner7424]

In residence I once got annoyed by a part in the room below me so I put this on at full volume and hung my speaker out the window directed at my neighbour... i heard a few WTFs

[@genietillery878]

The ending in this piece is in the movie Shining through and it is so beautiful. People think I'm crazy for enjoying Opera!

[@Ddr-smith7947]

This always completely overwhelms me, just so beautiful.

[@julianallen6849]

Terrific - beyond words. The ultimate expression of pure being.

[@cj5273]

Outstanding. It's a privilege to listen to this performance

[@direitasempre7066]

Strong. Deep. Great singers. My eyes are watering. The final aria is better than everything was composed in pop music ever! It is a song made by an insane man!

[@garylysaght1579]

The sound quality is amazing. Thank you

[@BillAdams001]

This is an excellent production and portrayal of this thrilling apocolytic love scene. Wudershoen! Molto bene.

[@mrs.g.9816]

Totally moved. I have had to say goodbye to a few loved ones over the years, and just today, I was visiting a beloved family member in hospice. The beautiful pure singing and the aria itself brought tears to my eyes.

[@neeneeintexas]

I played this song for my mother while she was in the ICU. She was enchanted by it. I was grateful that if she had to pass, she heard one of the masterpieces of all time.

[@cultydj6461]

Thank you so much for sharing this great video

[@soniasmdm8496]

wow, i find myself speechless....BRAVO!!!!

[@superstar3027]

Took My breath away. Brought me to tears.

[@borkumriff642]

+#SUPERSTAR Absolutely !!! This is so powerfull, so beautiful.

[@dolly300]

Tout simplement magnifique !

[@ronaldbeield7946]

Many cannot or will not listen to Wagner for obvious reasons, but once you are exposed to it such as this incredible piece you're hooked. You can't resist Wagner. You can try, but it won't work. Wagner's music reaches out into your very insides and pulls you in, into the "sturm und drang" and into the rapture.

[@gerhardrohne2261]

which are the "obvious reasons" except for selfrighteous and obsequious virtue signallings?

[@ronaldbeield7946]

You should "obviously" know that many people cannot (or will not) separate the art from the artist. Wagner was a repugnant, despicable egomaniac and a bigot. This can be said of many people like him who were supremely gifted with an incredible genius, but produced great art for the ages.@@gerhardrohne2261

[@Finneastheferg]

Ironic coming from you@@gerhardrohne2261

[@rdred8693]

@@gerhardrohne2261 Exactly. I love Wagner

[@AsiaHenderson]

Wait why not ?

[@laurensawyer40]

If you like Wagner, don't miss this. Unbelievably controlled, resonant and beautiful.

[@serge6134]

La meilleure version de Tristan et Isolde pour toujours !

[@muffin6369]

I wait for it, I wait for it, I wait for it and then have a freakin' breakdown the last 5 minutes!!!!!

[@HanaDeHaya]

muffin6369 yes Me too

[@smartmagis]

supreme bliss! love ever radiant, laughing death! man did this guy know how to end a show!

[@davidgerhardus3885]

And after 3 hours of drama ans sexual lust and belonging, this musical GOD finally resolves that damn amazing cord at the end of the piece.. what a genius

[@stevew1669]

Words fail. Surely the greatest moment of opera! It never loses its power.

[@riccardobarreca8066]

Straordinario, magnifico, eccezionale!

[@waynejones3870]

Beautiful. Almost otherworldly

[@jimwigler]

God, that was phenomenal.

[@dreamstate207]

I can's stop playing it! Help!

[@noeltroy2634]

Takes my breath away and fills my lungs with angel dust. The nine muses were fully attendent on wagner from cradle to grave

[@j.divine2463]

SUPERB Performance. Thank you!

[@lila2k03]

The only music I've every listened to where I feel the need to smoke a cigarette after..:)

[@maciejofierski6787]

Because this piece of music is both erotic and eternal!

[@Jan96106]

@@maciejofierski6787 I missed the eternal part. But it does imitate an orgasm. Will KZbin let me say that?

[@zogzog1063]

Truly a magnificent performance.

[@berndblank9422]

Göttlich-Tränen Fließen !!

[@oliviermakolive1434]

Tristan is one Himalaya among human artistic production and this 1995 team belongs to the very happy few who served it best, including Furtwangler, Kleiber and Bohm

[@katarinelacerda7346]

A interpretação de Carlos Kleiber dessa obra é elevação ao supremo.

[@1MRBASSMAN]

One of the most glorious experiences in music ruined by the stupid placement of an ad right at the climax! if KZbin thinks that this is going to make me shell out extra bucks to purchase their ad free version they've got it totally backwards.

[@vaxrvaxr]

I doubt they think about your Wagner desecration. More likely, they base their business decisions on a larger heuristic.

[@davisgoodman6621]

Definitely in the top 5 I've ever seen. Brava. Bravi.

[@vincentlombardo9797]

If nothing else on KZbin, then this alone! There in Bayreuth in 1999, and still here, the Will overcoming!

[@Donjuan77]

Sublime! Perfect! thanks for posting!

[@adampetersen4795]

What a wonderful power voice! I thought only Jessy Norman's interpretation could give me goosebumps … but goodness me!

[@markharris1223]

What a magnificent voice this lady has. Her voice is natural, sweet and almost girlish in its lack of pretence.

[@JWP452]

OMG! Unfathomably Beautiful.

[@megamediker]

breathtaking, there ist no word more to say.

[@7Samadhi777]

Isolde’s Verklarung (‘Coming to Clarity’) AKA Liebestod by Wagner Mild und leise Mildly and gently, wie er lächelt, how he smiles, wie das Auge how the eye hold er öffnet ... he opens sweetly ... Seht ihr's, Freunde? Do you see it, friends? Seht ihr's nicht? Don’t you see it? Immer lichter Brighter and brighter wie er leuchtet, how he shines, stern-umstrahlet illuminated by stars hoch sich hebt? rises high? Seht ihr's nicht? Don’t you see it? Wie das Herz ihm How his heart mutig schwillt, boldly swells, voll und hehr fully and nobly im Busen ihm quillt? wells in his breast? Wie den Lippen, How from his lips wonnig mild, delightfully, mildly, süßer Atem sweet breath sanft entweht --- softly wafts --- Freunde! Seht! Friends! Look! Fühlt und seht. Don't you feel ihr's nicht? and see it? Hör ich nur Do I alone diese Weise, hear this melody, die so wundervoll which wonderfully und leise, and softly, Wonne klagend, lamenting delight, alles sagend, telling it all, mild versöhnend mildly reconciling aus ihm tönend, sounds out of him, in mich dringet, invades me, auf sich schwinget, swings upwards, hold erhallend sweetly resonating um mich klinget? rings around me? Heller schallend, Sounding more clearly, mich umwallend --- wafting around me --- Sind es Wellen Are these waves sanfter Lüfte? of soft airs? Sind es Wogen Are these billows wonniger Düfte? of delightful fragrances? Wie sie schwellen, How they swell, mich umrauschen, how they sigh around me, soll ich atmen, shall I breathe, soll ich lauschen? shall I listen? Soll ich schlürfen, Shall I drink, untertauchen? immerse? Süß in Düften Sweetly in fragrances mich verhauchen? melt away? In dem wogenden Schwall, In the billowing torrent, in dem tönenden Schall, in the resonating sound, in des Welt-Atems in the wafting universe wehendem All of the World-Breath ertrinken, drown, versinken --- be engulfed --- unbewußt --- unconscious --- höchste Lust! supreme delight!

[@amz_user_H]

Emma Sabia danke schoen

[@klausbrauckmann9095]

Danke

[@Cream1959]

Wagner was a genius

[@sharpsvilleBill]

Wagner was an extraterrestrial alien like Einstein...

[@annalisafantini4678]

@@sharpsvilleBill wow, those are the best same words I said Yesterday after watching Tristan und Isolde live at the theatre. Curiously enough, Einstein didn't like Wagner at all: It was too booking and loud (he often played music in order to concentrate and think)

[@annalisafantini4678]

*very same

[@christianwouters6764]

Wagner was a genius but the director of this Tristan surely wasn't.

[@moltovivace]

@@annalisafantini4678 Einstein and Wagner were both disciples of Schopenhauer.

[@aliciasarramida]

superb, extremely moving ♥

[@mikaelb7735]

Heaven sent!!!

[@skyhunk]

Waltraud Meier is in today's Wagnerian Opera world beyond compare. Kirsten Flagstad and Birgit Nilsson, watch out! Waltraud's interpretation is perhaps not as comparable in projection and volume as your own, but I find that her nuanced performance touches more deeply.

[@soniasmdm8496]

Omg how is this voice even posible? For sure an Angel from Haven❤beavoooooooooo

[@NathanLoveridge]

Chills everytime at 12:40

[@muffin6369]

+Nathan Loveridge Yeah! I'm just say'in too. My God!!! Talk about crescendo!

[@maximo151]

+Nathan Loveridge It leaves you speechless; it feels like a cosmic orgasm. You feel the emotion in every cell of your body!!

[@LAK_770]

+Nathan Loveridge If your face doesn't melt like Raiders of the Lost Ark every time you hear that, you're not a person. Unbearable tension, and then the grandfather of all beat drops. Oh my god. The rest of the denouement is like having a cigarette after an orgasm.

[@chriswolfe7830]

I get chills too .. then I tear up and have to try to stop from weeping.

[@muffin6369]

Yes I will cop to the crying also. And then I torment myself by playing it over and over!!!

[@miapal1316]

Especially the last 2 minutes of the final crescendo have the incredible power and intensity to destabilise our senses. The transition into death, the transfiguration of love into Unbewusst, is driven to such breathless morphing of emotions to the end that it makes it difficult to distinguish between the orchestra and Waltraud voice : is her voice an extension of the orchestra ? Or the orchestra an extension of her voice ? Do we see Waltraud or do we see Isolde ? We must abandon all logic .Her whole face transfixed as she embraces the end whilst the elements of nature are haunting her, drawing her in. It couldn't have lasted more the intensity ... human body cannot hold or maintain the ecstasy but art can and what a sublime way to immortalise it : "hochste Lust... " One can almost measure her last heart beats in her last words ( ertrinken /versinken / unbewusst/ as the orchestra is receding ... I haven't encountered this richness ( both musical and philosophical ) in any other interpretation of Isolde.

[@conchaserranoalonso4337]

Ojos rasados de lágrimas. Belleza plena. Poca más que decir ante la interpretación de Meier

[@Chopin124]

That resolution... LOVE

[@Rassendhyl100]

Amazing! thanks for posting this.

[@redfox5336]

imagine being one the first audiences to hear this piece for the first time, 162 years ago, destroyed! I'm sure, in the very best way though :)

[@slingdingers]

Holy Fuck... The greatest. I wanna die. Play this until my death.

[@maratom34]

nut case

[@maxjelley4055]

This resolution always gets me.

[@AmyNoelonDyslexia]

7:52 Isolde sings her gorgeous aria!

[@apico]

Wonderful and tear inducing

[@ivanlisak1945]

We felt that relief, I am certain

[@ibnbattuta1304]

i really like the audio quality here. don't know if meier is considered the best, but this one is my favorite

[@MrCuddlyable3]

I like this greatly but it is anticlimactic to have no audience to respond at the end.

[@klausbrauckmann9095]

Nicht von dieser Welt ! Wunderschön !

[@pekolucky]

This music touches the soul of my being. A musical/spiritual orgasm. God!

[@IvanIV05]

I always get goosebumps when I hear the Liebestod, so intense, so beautiful. BTW this the moment that the saying "It ain't over till the fat lady sings" is based on. Except Waltraud Meier is miscast in this respect, haha.

[@paulhoelzl]

13:10...extreme chills, every time.

[@epicalprototypeW98]

i love Liebestod so much. it is my most listened to song in a whie, and when the beautiful angeled voice woman starting to sing, i shed tears continously. i even had to cover my face so no one could see me crying. beautiful. graceful. absolutely breath taking. thank you for uploading this, god bless =] ps: that ad placement is terrible, you should change it XD

[@901cleo]

Simply glorious.

[@BeliarLP]

People who don't know the opera: Do I HAVE TO understand those confusing words? People who know the opera: CAN I understand those confusing words?

[@erlandschneck-holze4476]

... Barenboim als absolut genialer Wagner-Dirigent! - Hier mit sehr, sehr guten Solisten; vgl auch die ältere, noch intensivere Bayreuther Barenboim-Ponnelle-Inszenierung auf KZbin...

[@adude394]

This is basically the pinnacle of all music.

[@manfredmeier4775]

is this music composed by a human being ?

[@ganifraterdogan1062]

No, he was infamously a lizard

[@gweiss5000]

Supposedly this is what Verdi said upon seeing It.

[@terminator324343]

Adding to that, is it even sung by a human being?

[@jooheelee3893]

Meier is awesome

[@rocketrob68]

So intense