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Loving or hating him is almost obligatory.",{"type":9,"value":10,"toc":11},"minimark",[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":14},"",2,[],"md",{},true,[19,22],{"title":20,"slug":21},"The Valkyrie","la-valchiria",{"title":23,"slug":24},"Tristan and Isolde","tristano-e-isotta",5,"/en/wagner",{"title":5,"description":12},"wagner","en/wagner/index","1813 — 1883","tximN4BOkVOaNAWMFbHheGSRQQA8YyIzvi4imiXg-Q8",[33,82],{"id":34,"title":20,"anno":35,"aria":36,"atti":39,"bio":6,"body":49,"compositore":53,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":54,"meta":55,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":56,"personaggi":57,"seo":78,"slug":6,"stem":79,"tagline":80,"years":6,"__hash__":81},"en/en/wagner/la-valchiria.md","Munich, 1870",{"nome":37,"descrizione":38},"Ride of the Valkyries","Eight divine warrior-maidens ride through the lightning carrying fallen heroes to Valhalla. It is among the most recognisable orchestral passages in music history — and in the opera it lasts far longer than the thirty seconds everyone knows.",[40,43,46],{"titolo":41,"testo":42},"Act I — The Sword and the Twins","A stormy night. Siegmund, wounded and hunted, takes refuge in a hut. The mistress of the house is Sieglinde, the unhappy wife of Hunding, Siegmund's enemy. The two talk, recognise each other without understanding why they feel so close. Siegmund discovers a sword embedded in the trunk of the tree at the centre of the room — no one has ever managed to pull it out. He pulls it out with ease. The two flee together into the night. They are brother and sister. They love each other.",{"titolo":44,"testo":45},"Act II — Wotan's Decision","Wotan orders Brünnhilde to protect Siegmund in battle. Then Fricka arrives: Siegmund has violated the law of marriage. Wotan, trapped, must revoke the order. Brünnhilde meets Siegmund before the battle and announces his death. He refuses to go to Valhalla without Sieglinde. Brünnhilde is moved by his humanity. She disobeys: she protects Siegmund. Wotan intervenes in person, shatters Siegmund's sword; Siegmund is killed. Brünnhilde flees with Sieglinde.",{"titolo":47,"testo":48},"Act III — The Condemnation","The Valkyries ride carrying fallen heroes. Brünnhilde arrives with Sieglinde, who carries Siegmund's child in her womb — the future Siegfried. The Valkyries refuse to help her. Wotan arrives, furious. His sentence: Brünnhilde is no longer a goddess. She will sleep on a rock surrounded by fire, and the first man to wake her will become her master. Wotan lulls her to sleep with a kiss. Then he calls Loge, the god of fire, and surrounds her with flames. Only a hero without fear will be able to pass through them.",{"type":9,"value":50,"toc":51},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":52},[],"Wagner","The Valkyrie is the second part of the Ring of the Nibelung — a cycle of four operas lasting roughly fifteen hours in total. It is also the most beloved: it contains the Ride, but above all Wotan's farewell to his daughter, one of the most moving moments in all music history.",{},"/en/wagner/la-valchiria",[58,62,66,70,74],{"nome":59,"voce":60,"descrizione":61},"Wotan","Bass-baritone — king of the gods","The father of the Norse gods. Enormously powerful but trapped by his own laws. He loves his daughter Brünnhilde more than anyone — and condemns her himself.",{"nome":63,"voce":64,"descrizione":65},"Brünnhilde","Dramatic soprano — the Valkyrie","Wotan's favourite daughter. A divine warrior, courageous. She disobeys her father to follow the justice of her heart. She is the greatest character in all of Wagner's Ring cycle.",{"nome":67,"voce":68,"descrizione":69},"Siegmund","Tenor","Wotan's mortal son, raised alone and pursued by fate. On a stormy night he finds a house, a sword embedded in a tree and his sister — whom he does not know is his sister.",{"nome":71,"voce":72,"descrizione":73},"Sieglinde","Soprano","Siegmund's twin sister, separated as a child. They recognise each other without knowing it. They fall in love. Wagner does not apologise.",{"nome":75,"voce":76,"descrizione":77},"Fricka","Mezzo-soprano — goddess of marriage","Wotan's wife. She demands he respect the divine laws and let Siegmund die. She is right according to the law. She is wrong according to the heart. Wagner gives her both reasons.",{"title":20,"description":12},"en/wagner/la-valchiria","Gods, heroes, incest and a disobedient daughter condemned to sleep on a rock of fire","d_vphN0gxwzzH9xVgERRVgNCpX9jtiQQIZNk-bVBn2A",{"id":83,"title":23,"anno":84,"aria":85,"atti":88,"bio":6,"body":98,"compositore":53,"description":12,"extension":15,"finale":102,"meta":103,"navigation":17,"opere":6,"order":6,"path":104,"personaggi":105,"seo":126,"slug":6,"stem":127,"tagline":128,"years":6,"__hash__":129},"en/en/wagner/tristano-e-isotta.md","Munich, 1865",{"nome":86,"descrizione":87},"Liebestod — Love Death","Isolde sings over Tristan's dead body and dissolves into love itself. It is the resolution of a harmony left unresolved for three hours. When it finally arrives, it feels as though the whole world exhales.",[89,92,95],{"titolo":90,"testo":91},"Act I — The Potion","A ship at sea. Tristan is escorting Isolde to Cornwall to marry King Mark. Isolde hates him: he killed her fiancé Morold, then came to ask for her hand for his king. She orders Brangäne to prepare a poison: she wants to die together with Tristan. Brangäne substitutes the poison with the love potion. They both drink. They look at each other. There is nothing to be done.",{"titolo":93,"testo":94},"Act II — The Night","King Mark has left for a hunting party. Tristan and Isolde meet at night in the castle garden. They sing of their love in an immense duet — the night as the only space in which to exist, the day as the enemy that separates them. Then the traitor Melot arrives with King Mark. Mark is shattered: the nephew he loved as a son, the promised bride. He does not shout. He only asks why. Tristan cannot answer. He lets himself be wounded by Melot.",{"titolo":96,"testo":97},"Act III — The Wait and the Death","Tristan's castle in Brittany. Tristan is wounded, feverish, delirious. He waits for Isolde — only she can heal him. Kurwenal has sent for her. Tristan alternates between states of ecstasy and despair. Finally the ship arrives. Tristan tears off his bandages and runs towards her. He dies in her arms before he can embrace her. King Mark also arrives — he came to forgive them. It is too late. Isolde sings her Liebestod and dies.",{"type":9,"value":99,"toc":100},[],{"title":12,"searchDepth":13,"depth":13,"links":101},[],"Tristan and Isolde has no plot in the traditional sense: it is an experience. Wagner constructed over three hours a never-resolved harmonic tension — a famous chord, the 'Tristan chord', that never resolves until the opera's final minute. It is the music of desire: always waiting, never satisfied. Until the end.",{},"/en/wagner/tristano-e-isotta",[106,110,114,118,122],{"nome":107,"voce":108,"descrizione":109},"Tristan","Dramatic tenor","Irish knight in the service of King Mark of Cornwall. Noble, loyal, fated. He drinks the potion and there is no return.",{"nome":111,"voce":112,"descrizione":113},"Isolde","Dramatic soprano","Irish princess betrothed to King Mark. She hates Tristan — then drinks the potion. Her final Liebestod is among the most extraordinary moments in music history.",{"nome":115,"voce":116,"descrizione":117},"King Mark","Bass","King of Cornwall, Tristan's uncle. He is no villain: he is a man betrayed who cannot bring himself to hate those he loves. His monologue in Act Two is devastating.",{"nome":119,"voce":120,"descrizione":121},"Brangäne","Mezzo-soprano","Isolde's handmaid. She accidentally administers the love potion instead of the poison. She carries the weight of this for the entire opera.",{"nome":123,"voce":124,"descrizione":125},"Kurwenal","Baritone","Tristan's faithful squire. He follows him to death with absolute, silent loyalty.",{"title":23,"description":12},"en/wagner/tristano-e-isotta","The opera that changed the history of music — an impossible love that lasts all night","ASWuQaEAfBNTdNqc9R36SF5QQ_Yo7YW-Dk18xTL127c",1774014353061]