Quotes of Isolde - somelinesforyou

“ The prelude to Tristan and Isolde sounded as if a bomb had fallen into a large music factory and had thrown all the notes into confusion. ”

- The Tribune

“ The prelude to Tristan and Isolde reminds me of the Italian painting of the martyr whose intestines are slowly being unwound from his body on a reel. ”

- Eduard Hanslick

“ Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year. ”

- Robertson Davies

“ If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves. The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e… ”

- W. H. Auden
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