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Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act III : Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 / Act III: Richard WAGNER : Tristan et Isolde. Mort d’Isolde (Live at Bayreuther Festspiele / 1966)
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Nilsson’s Isolde delivers the Liebestod as a slow, incandescent immolation—the orchestra swells like a tide of fire, yet her voice remains a beacon of terrible calm. Wagner’s final act becomes a transfiguration, where grief and ecstasy dissolve into one shimmering, unbearable chord.