When genius meets married muse, art gets messy and operas get written.
Richard Wagner is working on his new opera "Tristan and Isolde". Mathilde Wesendonck and her husband, the silk-merchant Otto Wesendonck venerate Wagner. Mathilde is turning from a loving mother into a muse of the new music.
Acting
Sophie Auster's Mathilde: devotion and desire behind 19th-century manners.
Direction
Neubert lets glances do what dialogue cannot.
Director
Jens Neubert
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wagner actually set five Wesendonck poems to music—the 'Wesendonck Lieder'—while living in their Zurich villa rent-free.
This affair arguably produced the most influential chord in Western music: the 'Tristan chord,' which broke tonality and paved the way for modernism.
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