Festival summer Klaus Mäkelä Johanna Wallroth

Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was one of the 19th century's most influential artists, regardless of the art form. The opera Tristan and Isolde builds on a tragic love story from the middle ages, and Wagner finished writing the opera in Lucerne in 1859. The Prelude to the opera created a watershed moment in music history with its unstable and unpredictable harmonies. It became a starting point for the development of music without traditional tonality...