Simon O'Neill & Miina Liisa Värelä - "Das Licht! O sink hernieder" TRISTAN UND ISOLDE (Wagner) 2021

From the 2021 Glyndebourne Festival Opera performances of Richard Wagner's TRISTAN UND ISOLDE, here is the scene from Act II between Tristan and Isolde. One of the world's finest heldentenor, the New Zealander, Simon O'Neill, and Finnish soprano, Miina Liisa Värelä, are captured in a musically un-cut performance of this central scene - commencing with Tristan's "Das Licht! Das Licht! O dieses Licht, wie lang verlosch es nicht!" through to the duet "O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe, gib Vergessen, dass ich lebe". The London Philharmonic Orchestra is conducted by Robin Ticciati in this performance from August 24th, 2021. Hailed as “THE Wagnerian tenor of his generation”, Simon O’Neill is a Fulbright Scholar and became Officer of New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2017 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

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Thanks once again!!!

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I hate this period of opera. I thought I would try and get into it. Thanks for posting. Mozart, Handel, Vinci, Montiverdi etc. is for me.