Phil Vassar - Twenty One

This is a production.- a kind of giant wok.-symph. a poem about the destructive power of all-consuming passion. Music conveys the diversity of feelings of love - languor, expectation, pain, despair, thirst for death, enlightenment, hope, rejoicing. The life surrounding the heroes, as if from afar, reaches their consciousness. The plot is outlined in outline, psychological. states are transferred against the backdrop of landscape sketches, night paintings, full of poetic charm, vague, mysteries. movements in nature, in the soul of man. A kind of approach to "Tristan and Isolde" were 5 poems for voice from fp. to the text of M. Vezendonk (1857-58), whose music partially entered the opera. But what was only outlined in the romances received wide vocal and symphonic development in the opera.