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Richard Wagner's fatal love potion

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During Richard Wagner opera Tristan & Isolde, he wrote to Mathilde Wesendonck - a model for the character of Isolde and his wife patron Otto Wesendonck, "Child! This is what Tristan terrible! This last act! .... I fear the opera will be banned - if not by poor performance of the whole is parodied -: only mediocre performances can save me! Completely good to make people mad - I can think of no other's. So far has it yet to come with me !!..."

After completion of the work in 1859's taken some time for the opera has ever managed on a stage, as many theaters refused to score as unperformable from. 1862 it finally seemed to be so far, but after 77 samples, and also because even threw in the towel, the tenor in Vienna, this production had to be canceled. Only by his patron Ludwig II of Bavaria, Wagner got another chance: on 10 June 1865 was finally premiered the work under the direction of Hans von Bülow in Munich Court and National Theater. His wife Cosima Incidentally, since 1863, had an affair with Wagner, in 1865 their first child together, which they named Isolde, gave birth to him in 1870 and eventually married. The crowd reaction after the premiere were muted but generally more, but Ludwig II spoke enthusiastically about the opera: "Only! - Holy! How delightful! - Perfectly. So affected by the rapture! - Drowning .... sink - unconsciously - the highest pleasure. - Divine Work! Eternally loyal - to beyond death "

The two main characters has the singer couple Ludwig and Malvina Schnorr sung by Carol Field. The only 29 year old but Ludwig died suddenly after the third performance with the action and became a legend. Long as the cause of death in the incredibly difficult to singing Tristan lot was searched, more recent research suggests, however, rather close to an infectious disease such as typhoid and meningitis. Although nothing more: Since then the opera and in particular the Tristan game as murderous and deadly.

1886, three years after the death of Richard Wagner's staging, Cosima Wagner Tristan for the first time at the Bayreuth Festival. The musical direction of the conductor Felix Mottl held. By the way 1911 died when conducting during the Second Tristan act of a heart attack. The same happened for the first 60-year-old Joseph Keilberth 1968 ..... in Munich