[HD] Richard Wagner - Tristan Und Isolde - Prelude | Daniel Barenboim, Bayreuth Festival

Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Opera, WWV 90. Act I. Prelude Daniel Barenboim, Bayreuth Festival, 1983. This 1983 Bayreuth Festival film of Wagner’s monumental ode to passion is considered by many to be the best available. It is the only production available on DVD to hold to anything like a conventional setting, and only takes a radical interpretation in the last moments of the final act. Wagner’s music drama (he used the word ’handlung’ or treatment) was inspired in part by the great mediæval roman