I plotz at this every time. Listen for the Tristan chord! It’s in the leitmotif at the very top of the show and persists throughout. Once you taste it, everything else will taste like it.

‘Tristan und Isolde” is about longing for something you never reach. The consummation of a relationship. The resolution of a chord. The ideal performance. The next intermission. Is it, in fact ...

We'll hear the world-famous Tristan Chord... in its natural habitat: the prelude to Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde. Mariss Jansons (YAHN-sohns) leads the Oslo Philharmonic. The enigmatic ...

The two meet a night, in secret. Night stands for death, and both are embraced by the couple. Their passion can't be requited, even in an opera. That's the secret and the devil of Tristan und Isolde.

But “Tristan und Isolde” operates quite differently. There isn’t a real resolution to the questing, seeking music until the very end of the opera.

Thursday’s program by the Cleveland Orchestra ended its subscription season at Severance Music Center. The evening started with Richard Wagner’s Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde ...