page_title: Tristan and Iseult
section_title: Music
hierarchical_section_title: Tristan and Iseult / Modern works / Music
caption_attribution_description: Stamp description / Briefmarkenbeschreibung Deutsch: Serie Nothilfe mit Darstellungen aus den Werken von Richard Watgner English: Series for social help with pictures of the work of Richard Wagner Ausgabepreis: 20+10 Reichspfennig First Day of Issue / Erstausgabetag: 1. November 1933 Michel-Katalog-Nr: 505 (Deutsches Reich)
context_page_description: Tristan and Iseult, alternatively known as Tristan and Isolde, is a chivalric romance retold in numerous variations since the 12th century. The story is a tragedy about the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult; while the details differ from one author to another, the overall plot structure remains much the same. The narrative predates and most likely influenced the Arthurian romance of Lancelot and Guinevere, and has had a substantial impact on Western art and literature.
context_section_description: In 1832, Gaetano Donizetti references this story in his opera L'elisir d'amore as the character of Adina sings the story to the ensemble, inspiring Nemorino to ask the charlatan Dulcamara for the magic elixir. 
  Premiered in 1865, Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde depicts Tristan as a doomed romantic figure, while Isolde fulfils Wagner's quintessential feminine rôle as the redeeming woman. 
  Twentieth-century composers also used the legend (often with Wagnerian overtones) in their compositions. Olivier Messiaen built his Turangalîla-Symphonie around the story. Hans Werner Henze's Tristan borrowed freely from the Wagnerian version as well as retellings of the legend.
  Swiss composer Frank Martin wrote a chamber opera Le vin herbé between 1938–1940 after being influenced by Wagner.
  Blind Guardian, a power metal band from Germany, also has a song inspired by Tristan and Iseult's story, "The Maiden and the Minstrel Knight", from their A Night at the Opera album.
  Colin Meloy's former band Tarkio have a song entitled "Tristan and Iseult" from their Sea Songs for Landlocked Sailers ep.
  Patrick Wolf, English singer and songwriter, has a song about the Tristan and Iseult legend: "Tristan" from his second album Wind in the Wires.
  Inspired by Thomas Hardy's play The Famous Tragedy of The Queen of Cornwall the English composer Rutland Boughton composed the music-drama The Queen of Cornwall. The first performance took place at the Glastonbury Festival in 1924. Already famous for "The Immortal Hour" and "Bethlehem", Boughton's growth as a unique and powerful operatic composer is evident in this treatment of the Tristram and Isolde legend. Feeling that Hardy's play offered too much unrelieved grimness he received the playwright's permission to import a handful of lyrics from his earlier published poetical works. The result is an altogether impressive and effective work, thought by many to be Boughton's masterpiece in this genre. In 2010 it was recorded on the Dutton Epoch label, in which Ronald Corp conducts the New London Orchestra, members of the London Chorus and with soloists Neal Davies (King Mark), Heather Shipp (Queen Iseult), Jacques Imbrailo (Sir Tristam) and Joan Rodgers (Iseult of Brittany).
caption: Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde celebrated in a 1933 German stamp
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