Met Opera Live on Screen: Tristan und Isolde

Often described as the start of modern music, Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde has been called the most influential work in the history of both opera and classical music. Bound in marriage to King Marke against her will, Irish princess Isolde resolves to end her life along with that of Tristan, a Cornish knight who is tasked with bringing Isolde back to Cornwall. But when a love potion is substituted for poison, the two are drawn into an all-consuming, obsessive love affair that destroys everything and everyone in its unstoppable path. This medieval romance about a forbidden love is a true masterpiece that is worth devoting the time to.