Emotions are running high. It's half-past ten at night and the heroine is preparing for one of the most intense and demanding arias of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde. Tristan has just died, and Isolde will sing of his soul floating above the water. After three and a half hours of drama, Isolde must once again grip the audience, conveying her hopelessness and grief above the swelling orchestra before she, too, dies.
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