Tristan and Isolde is a very known Story in Europe. Especially in Germany. Thanks to Richard Wagners Opera with the same name, it became so popular King Ludwig II. of Bayern commissioned a Tristan and Isolde Painting for his Neuschwanstein Castle! It's painted by August Spieß (1881) and in his bedroom!
Here you can see the Painting in the Bedroom and how big it actually is. On the full Painting you can see Brangaine in the Background as well, what a sight to behold!
The magnificent Italian dramatic soprano Giuseppina Cobelli as Isolde.
She was legendary Sieglinde, Isotta, Eboli, and more.
Cobelli (1 August 1898 - 10 August 1948) was described as a beautiful woman with a highly individual voice and dramatic temperament. Her soprano career abruptly finished when she was conditioned by deafness in 1932, she is remembered for being the only artist to perform on stage equipped with a hearing aid. Although she has become a forgotten opera star who passed away at the age of 50, Cobelli sang with the greatest tenors of her time, Fleta, Thill, Pertile, Gigli, Ruffo and under Toscanini, de Sabata, Serafin or Klemperer at the top Opera theatres all over the world.
Love duet - Patti Smith: ‘Put on Tristan and Isolde, real loud, and sit and listen to it.’
“Is it possible to say, on Earth, in daylight, Tristan AND Isolde, without triggering a catastrophe?” - P. Godefroid
“Is it possible to link two names in this way without arousing misfortune, without challenging the foundations of a society? Is it possible to be saved when one desires this AND? The answer will come in Parsifal.” - Philippe Godefroid
Eating my Tristan Cake, while enjoying my Tristan Tea, using my beautiful Tristan Tea Service 💕
All Products on this Pic (Tea Set, Cake and Tea) are based on the „Tristan & Isolde“ Opera by Richard Wagner. It’s a Tristan Tea Party in my Tristan Room! <3
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One of the great things with having favourites in F/GO is that you can always collect things from their original Lore outside of F/GO if there isn’t enough Merch about them (of course debatable if Tristan as lots or not but I can never have enough, haha). Being able to live out my love for Tristan so much makes me the happiest.
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❥ The Tea Service is from the Rosenthal GmbH. It’s the Isolde Service with the Tristan Decor, this Set is from around 1920. Since it’s one of the older Sets it’s hard to get them. You can see that it belongs to this series by the writing at the bottom of the tableware. So far I only have the Tea Pot, the Tea Cups and a Plate. I hope one day I get the whole Set of course!
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❥ The Cake is from the „Konditorei Bayern“, a bakery located in Hiroshima, Japan. Besides regular cakes they also offer the special „King Ludwig II. Of Bavaria“ Cake and the Cakes based on Richard Wagner’s Opera „Tristan & Isolde“. So we have cakes for the several characters!
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❥ The Tea is also based on Richard Wagner’s Opera „Tristan & Isolde“. This is made by the Shop „Teekultur Bayreuth“, located in Bayreuth, Germany. While they have a Website under the same name as the shop, the Tea to buy you can find 𝓗𝓮𝓻𝓮
Of course they also have other Wagner Opera based Tea's, for example they also offer a Parsifal or Götterdämmerung Tea!
ONCE UPON A TIME: “Tristan and Isolde”, Cologne Opera Festival on June 11, 1911. The wonderful scene photo from the second act shows the American Edyth Walker (1867-1950) as Isolde. Jacques Urlus sang Tristan, Paul Bender sang King Marke and Margarete Matzenauer sang Brangäne. Max von Schillings conducted. The production was done by Alexander d’Arnals and the set was created by Hans Wildermann.