The work is “ Tristan und Isolde” by Richard Wagner. It stands like a giant black monolith ( 2001: A Space Odyssey) that we are afraid to approach, or reproach, for fear of being totally overwhelmed and burnt by its genius of musical and artistic vision. ![]() It was a work that was so immense in scale, structure, vision, imagination, beauty, colour, orchestration, compositional techniques and wonderment that we are still to this day in awe of it. ![]() It was also the one greatest triggers of artistic revolution ever to be struck by creative artists striving for a new perfection and freedom of expression. ![]() 150 years ago this year one of the greatest operas ever written was premiered in Bayreuth, Bavaria.
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