• Source: Liebestod

"Liebestod" ([ˈliːbəsˌtoːt] German for "love death") is the title of the final, dramatic music from the 1859 opera Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner. It is the climactic end of the opera, as Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body.
The music is often used in film and television productions of doomed lovers.




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Further reading


Bronfen, Elisabeth, Liebestod und Femme fatale. Der Austausch sozialer Energien zwischen Oper, Literatur und Film, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp 2004. ISBN 3-518-12229-0




External links


Act III: Mild und leise wie er lächelt: from Tristan und Isolde, Wagner's autograph manuscript in the Richard Wagner Foundation
"Isolde's Liebestod", act 3, score and transcriptions: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project
Full text and some performances
"Liebestod", concert performance on YouTube, Birgit Nilsson

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• Max Färberböck
• Bruno Walter
• Liebestod
• Tristan und Isolde
• Leslie Epstein
• Aria (1987 film)
• L'Age d'Or
• Cadence
• Richard Wagner
• Bridget Fonda
• List of compositions by Franz Liszt
• Melancholia (2011 film)