Tristan und Isolde - Oper von Richard Wagner

In the organizer's words:

It all begins at sea: the knight Tristan takes the Irish princess Isolde to his uncle, the king of the victorious power of Cornwall, as an unwilling bride. Humiliated and tormented by unspeakable feelings for each other, a death potion is to end the lives of both of them before the ship docks in Cornwall. But instead of the poison, they unknowingly ingest a love potion that changes everything: Tristan and Isolde plunge into an unstoppable affair that takes over their entire existence. Their unquenchable desire for each other leads to an obsessive longing for death in their shared love death.

Richard Wagner's most radical opera is based on his own ardent, unrequited love for Mathilde Wesendonck. Since its creation in the 1850s, the work has been regarded as an extreme musical and sensual experience. Inspired by Schopenhauer's philosophy of negation and the idea of Buddhist nirvana, Wagner composes intoxicatingly sensual music that strives for redemption in never-ending, sucking whirlpools and endlessly spinning melodies that seem within reach and yet unattainable.