0:02:57.791,0:03:01.093 Do you hear them still? 0:03:01.094,0:03:10.214 To me the sound has already[br]died away in the distance. 0:03:16.243,0:03:19.643 They are still near: 0:03:20.447,0:03:25.087 they ring out clearly there. 0:03:41.268,0:03:46.328 Anxious fear deceives your ear. 0:03:52.879,0:03:59.419 You are deluded by the rustle of leaves 0:04:02.188,0:04:06.659 that the wind laughingly shakes. 0:04:06.660,0:04:19.360 The wildness of your desire deludes you[br]into hearing only what you choose to. 0:04:23.944,0:04:30.064 l can hear the winding of the horns. 0:04:46.900,0:04:52.900 No winding of horns sounds so sweet; 0:04:54.174,0:05:00.054 the gentle splashing of the fountain 0:05:00.413,0:05:04.793 ripples so joyfully yonder. 0:05:07.554,0:05:14.526 How could l hear it[br]if the horns were blowing? 0:05:14.527,0:05:24.467 ln the silence of the night[br]only the fountain laughs to me. 0:05:26.439,0:05:31.059 Would you keep afar from me 0:05:38.284,0:05:43.656 the one who waits for me[br]in the silent night 0:05:43.657,0:05:51.557 by thinking the horns still[br]sound near at hand? 0:05:52.799,0:06:00.005 The one who waits for you...[br]Oh, hear my warning! 0:06:00.006,0:06:04.766 Spies wait for him by night. 0:06:06.312,0:06:14.319 Because you blind yourself, think you[br]that the world's eyes grow dim for you? 0:06:14.320,0:06:20.092 On board ship,[br]when Tristan's trembling hand 0:06:20.093,0:06:28.534 delivered to King Marke the pale bride,[br]scarcely in possession of herself, 0:06:28.535,0:06:32.738 as all looked in wonder[br]on her shrinking 0:06:32.739,0:06:39.159 and the kindly king,[br]gently solicitous, 0:06:40.146,0:06:48.320 loudly deplored the hardship[br]of the long journey that you had suffered, 0:06:48.321,0:06:53.901 one there was, l marked him well, 0:06:56.262,0:07:02.122 who fixed his eyes only on Tristan. 0:07:03.670,0:07:07.172 With malicious craft[br]he sought by stealthy looks 0:07:07.173,0:07:14.546 to find in his mien[br]something to serve his purpose. 0:07:14.547,0:07:19.251 Often l see him, spitefully watching: 0:07:19.252,0:07:27.972 he is laying secret snares for you;[br]beware of Melot! 0:07:30.163,0:07:33.423 Mean you Sir Melot? 0:07:35.168,0:07:42.374 Oh, how deceived you are![br]ls he not Tristan's truest friend? 0:07:42.375,0:07:52.885 When my dear one must shun me,[br]then with Melot alone does he stay. 0:07:52.886,0:07:57.790 What makes me mistrustful[br]endears him to you! 0:07:57.791,0:08:06.465 Melot's path is from Tristan to Marke:[br]there he sows evil seed. 0:08:06.466,0:08:12.838 Those who today so suddenly and hastily[br]planned this hunt by night 0:08:12.839,0:08:23.619 are intent on a nobler quarry[br]than you, in your fancies, imagine. 0:08:24.083,0:08:29.703 Friend Melot devised this stratagem 0:08:30.290,0:08:35.750 from sympathy to help his friend. 0:08:35.895,0:08:39.731 Now will you reproach his fidelity? 0:08:39.732,0:08:43.168 He looks after me better than you do: 0:08:43.169,0:08:47.272 he opens ways that you close to me. 0:08:47.273,0:08:51.877 Oh, end my agony of waiting! 0:08:51.878,0:08:55.298 The signal, Brangäne! 0:08:56.082,0:08:58.802 Give the signal! 0:08:59.352,0:09:04.132 Quench the torch's last glow. 0:09:08.695,0:09:16.715 Give night the sign[br]that she may descend on us. 0:09:18.671,0:09:27.131 Already she sheds her silence[br]over grove and house, 0:09:31.084,0:09:37.644 filling the heart[br]with blissful tremors. 0:09:40.727,0:09:45.207 Oh, put out the light now, 0:09:46.199,0:09:51.139 extinguish its deterring glare! 0:09:52.972,0:09:56.772 Let my loved one come! 0:10:00.914,0:10:07.319 Oh, leave the warning flame,[br]let it show you your danger! 0:10:07.320,0:10:10.980 Alas, alas! Woe is me 0:10:14.861,0:10:18.961 for that hapless draught! 0:10:22.769,0:10:30.442 That l disloyal should only once[br]have worked against my lady's will! 0:10:30.443,0:10:41.623 Had l obeyed, deaf and blind,[br]your deed then would have been death. 0:10:47.026,0:10:52.866 But must l bear the guilt for ever 0:10:53.766,0:10:59.226 for your shame and grievous pain? 0:11:04.277,0:11:08.917 Your deed? Oh, foolish maid! 0:11:10.984,0:11:16.424 Know you not the goddess of love 0:11:18.291,0:11:22.911 and the power of her magic? 0:11:30.470,0:11:36.742 She who rules over the proudest spirit 0:11:36.743,0:11:42.223 and governs the world's unfolding? 0:11:42.515,0:11:48.095 Life and death are thrall to her, 0:11:51.958,0:11:58.098 which she weaves from joy and sorrow, 0:12:00.400,0:12:04.360 changing envy into love. 0:12:09.242,0:12:17.302 l presumptuously took death's work[br]into my hands: 0:12:17.884,0:12:25.644 the goddess of love[br]snatched it from my grasp. 0:12:27.827,0:12:32.064 She took me, death-consecrated, as pledge 0:12:32.065,0:12:37.505 and seized the work in her hand. 0:12:39.605,0:12:42.741 However she turns it, 0:12:42.742,0:12:45.544 however she ends it, 0:12:45.545,0:12:49.147 whatever she reserves for me,[br]wherever she leads me, 0:12:49.148,0:12:53.768 l have become her very own: 0:12:54.387,0:12:59.287 now let me show my obedience! 0:12:59.759,0:13:03.095 lf the baleful draught of love 0:13:03.096,0:13:05.897 has quenched your light of reason, 0:13:05.898,0:13:09.301 if you will not see[br]that of which l warn you, 0:13:09.302,0:13:12.904 only hear now, hear my supplication! 0:13:12.905,0:13:16.041 The shining light of danger, 0:13:16.042,0:13:24.182 for today, but for today,[br]do not extinguish the torch! 0:13:24.183,0:13:30.188 She who fans the glow within my bosom, 0:13:30.189,0:13:34.669 who sets my heart on fire, 0:13:34.827,0:13:40.265 who laughs like daylight in my soul, 0:13:40.266,0:13:47.086 the goddess of love desires night to come 0:13:47.640,0:13:53.100 that she may brightly shine there 0:13:56.015,0:14:01.153 where she has banished your light. 0:14:01.154,0:14:07.192 Now to the watch tower: keep good watch! 0:14:07.193,0:14:14.013 Laughing, l fear not to quench the torch, 0:14:14.700,0:14:21.240 even were it the flame of my existence! 0:15:54.467,0:15:55.687 lsolde! 0:15:57.470,0:15:58.830 Tristan! 0:15:59.572,0:16:00.932 Beloved! 0:16:15.388,0:16:17.589 - Are you mine?[br]- Do l hold you again? 0:16:17.590,0:16:19.858 - Dare l embrace you?[br]- Can l believe it? 0:16:19.859,0:16:22.127 - At last! At last![br]- Here on my breast! 0:16:22.128,0:16:24.429 - ls it really you l feel?[br]- Do l really see you? 0:16:24.430,0:16:26.731 - These your eyes?[br]- These your lips? 0:16:26.732,0:16:29.034 - This your hand?[br]- This your heart? 0:16:29.035,0:16:30.702 ls it l? ls it you? 0:16:30.703,0:16:33.038 - You in my arms?[br]- ls it no illusion? 0:16:33.039,0:16:35.739 ls it no dream? 0:16:38.377,0:16:42.037 O rapture of my soul, 0:16:43.015,0:16:47.252 sweetest, highest, boldest,[br]loveliest, blissful joy! 0:16:47.253,0:16:49.688 - Unparalleled![br]- Supreme treasure! 0:16:49.689,0:16:52.257 - Supreme joy![br]- For ever! 0:16:52.258,0:16:57.228 - Unimagined, unknown![br]- Overflowing, sublime! 0:16:57.229,0:16:59.764 - Overwhelming joy![br]- Entrancing bliss! 0:16:59.765,0:17:06.065 Highest heaven's oblivion of the world! 0:17:08.574,0:17:09.514 Mine! 0:17:12.511,0:17:17.671 - Tristan mine![br]- lsolde mine! 0:17:18.751,0:17:21.319 Mine and thine! 0:17:21.320,0:17:23.855 One for ever and ever! 0:17:23.856,0:17:27.692 - Tristan mine, lsolde ever thine![br]- For ever! lsolde mine! 0:17:27.693,0:17:30.395 - Tristan![br]- lsolde! 0:17:30.396,0:17:34.196 For ever and ever one! 0:17:40.773,0:17:43.475 How long apart! How far apart so long! 0:17:43.476,0:17:46.244 How far when near! How near when afar! 0:17:46.245,0:17:49.581 O foe to friendship, spiteful distance! 0:17:49.582,0:17:53.251 Dragging length of sluggish hours! 0:17:53.252,0:17:55.286 O distance and nearness, 0:17:55.287,0:17:57.555 harshly divided! 0:17:57.556,0:18:03.056 Blessed nearness, tedious distance! 0:18:04.330,0:18:09.768 You in the darkness, l in the light! 0:18:09.769,0:18:15.640 The light, the light! Oh, that light, 0:18:15.641,0:18:18.777 how long before it was put out! 0:18:18.778,0:18:23.014 The sun had sunk, the day was done, 0:18:23.015,0:18:26.050 but it would not suppress its envy: 0:18:26.051,0:18:29.320 its signal of alarm shone out, 0:18:29.321,0:18:36.227 planted by my beloved's door[br]so that l should not go to her. 0:18:36.228,0:18:41.099 But your beloved's hand[br]put out the light; 0:18:41.100,0:18:45.937 l feared not to do so[br]though my maid hindered me: 0:18:45.938,0:18:53.445 in the power and protection[br]of the love goddess l defied the day! 0:18:53.446,0:18:59.726 The day! The day! Hate and detestation 0:19:02.154,0:19:08.434 of the envious day, the cruellest foe! 0:19:09.895,0:19:16.768 Would that, as you quenched the torch,[br]l could extinguish 0:19:16.769,0:19:22.841 the glare of importunate daylight[br]to avenge all love's sorrows! 0:19:22.842,0:19:29.347 ls there one grief or one pain[br]that it does not awaken with its light? 0:19:29.348,0:19:35.908 Even in the spreading splendour of night 0:19:36.088,0:19:43.761 my beloved sheltered it at her house,[br]reaching out to me like a threat. 0:19:43.762,0:19:49.634 lf your beloved harboured it[br]at her house, 0:19:49.635,0:19:57.609 once it was defiantly harboured, clear[br]and bright, by my lover in his own heart: 0:19:57.610,0:20:01.710 Tristan, who betrayed me! 0:20:04.950,0:20:08.453 Was it not the day in him that lied 0:20:08.454,0:20:12.624 when he went to lreland to woo, 0:20:12.625,0:20:16.005 to win me for Marke 0:20:20.099,0:20:25.539 and doom his true love to death? 0:20:26.906,0:20:32.443 The day! The day which shone around you, 0:20:32.444,0:20:39.117 in which you shone like the sun,[br]in highest honour's gleaming light, 0:20:39.118,0:20:42.798 seized lsolde from me! 0:20:43.389,0:20:52.789 What so enchanted my eye[br]weighed my heart down to earth: 0:20:53.599,0:21:02.579 how could lsolde be mine[br]in the shining light of day? 0:21:03.409,0:21:08.849 Was she who chose you not yours? 0:21:09.315,0:21:12.951 What lies did spiteful day tell you 0:21:12.952,0:21:20.425 that you betrayed the beloved[br]who was destined for you? 0:21:20.426,0:21:26.166 What shone around you in splendour, 0:21:28.100,0:21:34.405 the lustre of honour, the power of fame, 0:21:34.406,0:21:42.706 madness held me captive[br]to set my heart on these. 0:21:43.816,0:21:50.655 That which brightly shone down on my head[br]with the glitter of dazzling light, 0:21:50.656,0:21:55.976 the noonday sun of worldly fame, 0:21:57.396,0:22:02.576 with its rays of empty rapture, 0:22:03.669,0:22:09.641 forced its way through head and brain 0:22:09.642,0:22:15.222 to the inmost shrine of my heart. 0:22:21.053,0:22:30.662 That which awoke there,[br]darkly locked away in chaste night, 0:22:30.663,0:22:40.383 that which, unknown and unimagined,[br]l dimly perceived there, 0:22:45.778,0:22:53.918 a vision that my eyes[br]had not dared to gaze on, 0:23:03.195,0:23:11.895 lay gleaming before me,[br]lit up by the light of day. 0:23:13.572,0:23:22.947 What seemed so glorious and splendid[br]l plainly proclaimed before the host; 0:23:22.948,0:23:34.058 l loudly praised before all the people[br]the loveliest royal bride on earth. 0:23:34.059,0:23:38.496 The envy that day awoke in me, 0:23:38.497,0:23:43.234 the passion that my fortune dismayed, 0:23:43.235,0:23:49.841 the jealousy that began to taint[br]my honour and fame, 0:23:49.842,0:23:54.011 these l defied and loyally vowed 0:23:54.012,0:24:02.053 to preserve my fame and honour[br]and journey back to lreland. 0:24:02.054,0:24:05.574 O vain slave of day! 0:24:15.534,0:24:21.105 Beguiled by that which beguiled you, 0:24:21.106,0:24:26.310 how l, loving, had to suffer through you 0:24:26.311,0:24:34.152 whom, deep in my heart, where love[br]warmly enfolded you, l fiercely hated, 0:24:34.153,0:24:39.493 entangled in the glittering toils 0:24:41.960,0:24:45.500 of day's false glare. 0:24:55.941,0:25:04.661 Ah, in my inmost heart[br]how deeply the wound smarted! 0:25:10.389,0:25:20.031 How wicked seemed to me the one[br]whom l secretly sheltered there, 0:25:20.032,0:25:26.671 when in the glow of day[br]the one and only truly cherished 0:25:26.672,0:25:33.778 vanished from love's sight[br]and stood before me now as a foe! 0:25:33.779,0:25:37.248 From the light of day, 0:25:37.249,0:25:40.885 from that which showed you betraying me[br]l longed to flee, 0:25:40.886,0:25:46.866 to draw you with me into the night, 0:25:50.329,0:25:58.229 where my heart promised me[br]an end of deception, 0:26:01.406,0:26:09.606 where the presaged dream[br]of delusion would vanish, 0:26:11.884,0:26:17.744 there to drink eternal love to you, 0:26:21.894,0:26:30.194 you, united to me,[br]l longed to dedicate to death. 0:26:36.675,0:26:44.982 ln your hand sweet death, as l realised[br]what you were offering me, 0:26:44.983,0:26:56.594 when my foreboding, exalted and certain,[br]showed what atonement held in store, 0:26:56.595,0:27:07.515 then there gently spread within my breast[br]the noble sway of night: 0:27:12.010,0:27:16.470 for me day was at an end. 0:27:20.352,0:27:23.821 But ah, the false draught deceived you, 0:27:23.822,0:27:27.758 so that once again night forsook you, 0:27:27.759,0:27:35.099 giving back to day[br]one who sought only death! 0:27:35.100,0:27:38.436 Oh, hail to the draught! 0:27:38.437,0:27:41.697 Hail to its liquor! 0:27:42.274,0:27:48.674 Hail to the mighty power of its magic! 0:27:49.982,0:27:57.755 Through the gates of death,[br]whence it flowed to me, 0:27:57.756,0:28:02.376 wide open it revealed to me 0:28:06.064,0:28:18.764 the wondrous realm of night in which[br]l otherwise had awakened only in dreams. 0:28:19.678,0:28:25.950 From the vision in my heart's[br]sheltering shrine 0:28:25.951,0:28:29.420 it repulsed day's deceiving light, 0:28:29.421,0:28:39.781 so that my eye, piercing the darkness,[br]served to see it truly. 0:28:43.735,0:28:48.372 But rejected day took its revenge, 0:28:48.373,0:28:51.375 it took counsel with your misdeeds: 0:28:51.376,0:28:56.247 what night's dim light revealed to you 0:28:56.248,0:29:06.057 you were forced to surrender[br]to the royal might of the star of day, 0:29:06.058,0:29:09.598 there to dwell alone, 0:29:17.903,0:29:22.423 shining in barren splendour. 0:29:28.947,0:29:32.467 How could l bear it? 0:29:36.421,0:29:39.423 How can l bear it now? 0:29:39.424,0:29:45.284 Oh, we were now dedicated to night! 0:29:47.132,0:29:52.192 Spiteful day, filled with envy, 0:29:53.371,0:29:58.831 could separate us with its deceit 0:29:59.177,0:30:05.437 but no longer cheat us with its lies! 0:30:06.952,0:30:12.412 lts idle pomp, its boastful glare 0:30:12.657,0:30:20.397 are derided by him[br]whose sight night has blessed. 0:30:20.398,0:30:24.101 The fleeting lightning[br]of its flickering fire 0:30:24.102,0:30:27.222 blinds us no more. 0:30:28.673,0:30:37.133 Before him who has lovingly[br]looked at death's night 0:30:38.250,0:30:43.430 and has known its deep secrets, 0:30:45.757,0:30:51.996 the lies of daylight, honour and fame, 0:30:51.997,0:30:55.366 power and profit, glittering so bright, 0:30:55.367,0:31:02.327 are scattered like barren dust in the sun. 0:31:11.049,0:31:15.009 Amid day's empty fancies 0:31:21.560,0:31:30.580 one single longing remains,[br]the longing for holy night, 0:31:31.269,0:31:41.129 where everlasting, solely true,[br]love's delight laughs to him! 0:33:31.856,0:33:38.116 Oh, sink down upon us, night of love, 0:33:53.778,0:33:57.578 make me forget l live: 0:34:07.992,0:34:12.072 take me into your bosom, 0:34:23.775,0:34:27.715 free me from the world! 0:34:36.488,0:34:42.368 Extinguished now is the last glimmer 0:34:49.601,0:34:56.141 of what we thought, of what we dreamed. 0:35:04.315,0:35:06.915 All remembrance, 0:35:11.456,0:35:14.196 all recollection, 0:35:17.128,0:35:22.908 holy twilight's glorious presentiment 0:35:29.841,0:35:40.781 obliterates the horror of delusion,[br]setting us free from the world. 0:35:59.037,0:36:04.757 The sun lies hidden in our breast, 0:36:09.414,0:36:14.194 stars of bliss shine smiling. 0:36:20.658,0:36:25.578 Gently enfolded in your spell, 0:36:31.903,0:36:37.243 sweetly melting before your eyes, 0:36:44.449,0:36:49.069 heart to heart, lip to lip, 0:36:51.689,0:36:56.469 bound together in one breath, 0:36:58.329,0:37:04.749 my eyes grow dim, blinded with ecstasy, 0:37:06.938,0:37:13.078 the world and its vanities fade away, 0:37:17.949,0:37:22.219 the world which lying day[br]illuminates for us, 0:37:22.220,0:37:27.591 then, confronting cheating illusion, 0:37:27.592,0:37:31.392 l myself am the world: 0:37:42.707,0:37:46.527 supreme bliss of being, 0:37:57.255,0:38:01.075 life of holiest loving, 0:38:13.471,0:38:17.011 never more to awaken, 0:38:26.918,0:38:32.558 delusion-free, sweetly known desire. 0:38:45.637,0:38:50.257 Alone l watch in the night: 0:39:13.531,0:39:18.991 you, to whom love's dream laughs, 0:39:38.022,0:39:41.402 heed the cry of one 0:39:59.210,0:40:04.670 who foresees ill for the sleepers 0:40:10.121,0:40:15.041 and anxiously bids them awake. 0:40:33.311,0:40:35.071 Take care! 0:40:53.731,0:40:57.951 Soon the night will pass. 0:41:53.858,0:41:54.798 Hark, 0:42:01.399,0:42:02.759 beloved! 0:42:14.946,0:42:16.966 Let me die! 0:42:34.065,0:42:36.805 Grudging watcher! 0:42:41.372,0:42:43.812 Never to wake! 0:42:51.115,0:42:56.435 But must not day arouse Tristan? 0:43:01.859,0:43:06.339 Let day give way to death! 0:43:15.873,0:43:20.773 Day and death, would they not 0:43:25.883,0:43:31.343 with equal force attack our love? 0:43:36.460,0:43:40.560 Our love? Tristan's love? 0:43:47.305,0:43:52.225 Yours and mine, lsolde's love? 0:43:57.615,0:44:05.095 What blow by death[br]could ever make it yield? 0:44:11.062,0:44:15.699 Were mighty death to stand before me, 0:44:15.700,0:44:21.160 however he menaced life and limb, 0:44:21.739,0:44:28.945 which willingly l would lose[br]for love's sake, 0:44:28.946,0:44:35.486 how could his blows[br]affect love itself? 0:44:49.433,0:44:59.753 Were l now to die for love,[br]for which l would so gladly die, 0:45:02.680,0:45:07.300 how could love die with me, 0:45:14.258,0:45:19.318 the ever-living perish with me? 0:45:28.739,0:45:34.179 So, if his love could never die, 0:45:42.753,0:45:48.473 how could Tristan die in his love? 0:46:28.199,0:46:31.319 But this our love, 0:46:37.575,0:46:43.575 is it not called Tristan and lsolde? 0:46:54.825,0:46:58.505 This sweet little word 0:47:01.832,0:47:03.192 ''and'', 0:47:09.540,0:47:14.860 binding as it does love's union, 0:47:20.484,0:47:28.384 would death not destroy it[br]were Tristan to die? 0:47:36.634,0:47:44.134 What could death destroy[br]but what impedes us, 0:47:45.409,0:47:53.469 that hinders Tristan[br]from loving lsolde for ever, 0:48:00.391,0:48:05.831 and for ever living but for her? 0:48:14.438,0:48:19.218 Yet this little word ''and'': 0:48:19.476,0:48:29.436 how might it be destroyed[br]other than with lsolde's own life, 0:48:29.486,0:48:35.206 if death were to be given Tristan? 0:48:58.048,0:49:02.828 Thus might we die, undivided, 0:49:12.296,0:49:16.516 one for ever without end, 0:49:24.408,0:49:28.928 never waking, never fearing, 0:49:35.252,0:49:39.772 embraced namelessly in love, 0:49:46.530,0:49:51.310 given entirely to each other, 0:49:55.973,0:50:00.053 living only in our love! 0:50:10.587,0:50:15.367 Thus we might die, undivided, 0:50:21.665,0:50:25.885 one for ever without end, 0:50:32.776,0:50:34.956 never waking, 0:50:38.115,0:50:40.435 never fearing, 0:50:43.620,0:50:48.140 embraced namelessly in love, 0:50:54.365,0:50:59.145 given entirely to each other, 0:51:03.474,0:51:10.254 - living only in our love![br]- Take care! 0:51:26.764,0:51:28.524 Take care! 0:51:35.139,0:51:40.999 Night is already giving way to day. 0:52:09.473,0:52:11.913 Must l listen? 0:52:21.518,0:52:23.538 Let me die! 0:52:36.400,0:52:38.700 Must l awake? 0:52:46.343,0:52:48.523 Never awaken! 0:52:54.718,0:52:59.218 Must day yet rouse Tristan? 0:53:05.796,0:53:10.276 Let day give way to death! 0:53:18.976,0:53:24.436 Shall we then defy day's threats? 0:53:24.748,0:53:29.648 To escape its guile for ever! 0:53:32.756,0:53:37.693 So that its dawning light[br]will never daunt us? 0:53:37.694,0:53:42.994 May night last for us for ever! 0:53:51.308,0:53:56.088 O endless night, sweet night! 0:54:03.453,0:54:08.793 Glorious, exalted, night of love! 0:54:12.696,0:54:17.667 - Those whom you embrace...[br]- on whom you smile... 0:54:17.668,0:54:26.242 ...how could they ever awaken[br]from you without dismay? 0:54:26.243,0:54:31.023 Now banish fear, sweet death, 0:54:32.082,0:54:37.142 ardently desired death in love! 0:54:39.089,0:54:43.989 ln your arms, devoted to you, 0:54:45.796,0:54:54.116 ever sacred glow,[br]freed from the misery of waking! 0:54:57.207,0:55:02.387 How to grasp, how to relinquish 0:55:02.613,0:55:07.373 this bliss far from the sun, 0:55:08.685,0:55:14.924 far from the day's[br]lamentations at parting! 0:55:14.925,0:55:20.963 - Without delusions...[br]- ...tender yearning. 0:55:20.964,0:55:27.203 - Without fears...[br]- ...sweet longing. 0:55:27.204,0:55:32.704 Without grieving, sublime drifting. 0:55:33.243,0:55:39.248 Without languishing,[br]enfolded in sweet darkness. 0:55:39.249,0:55:44.320 Without separating, without parting, 0:55:44.321,0:55:48.681 dearly alone, ever at one, 0:55:53.196,0:56:00.296 in unbounded space,[br]most blessed of dreams! 0:56:05.075,0:56:09.845 - You lsolde,[br]- You Tristan, 0:56:09.846,0:56:14.166 - l Tristan,[br]- l lsolde, 0:56:16.687,0:56:22.927 - no more lsolde![br]- no more Tristan! 0:56:23.293,0:56:28.097 - No names, no parting![br]- Ever! 0:56:28.098,0:56:34.570 - Newly perceived, newly kindled![br]- Unendingly! 0:56:34.571,0:56:40.211 Unendingly, ever, one consciousness; 0:56:49.286,0:56:52.546 supreme joy of love 0:56:54.057,0:56:57.737 glowing in our breast! 0:57:23.653,0:57:27.353 Save yourself, Tristan! 0:58:35.992,0:58:41.032 For the last time, dreary day! 0:58:49.272,0:58:52.932 Now tell me, my lord, 0:58:54.211,0:58:58.647 whether l accused him with just cause, 0:58:58.648,0:59:06.722 whether l have redeemed my head[br]that l staked in pledge? 0:59:06.723,0:59:12.061 l have shown him to you[br]in the very act: 0:59:12.062,0:59:21.902 l have faithfully preserved[br]your name and honour from shame. 1:00:07.384,1:00:09.824 See him there, 1:00:11.755,1:00:16.375 the truest of all true men; 1:00:25.535,1:00:27.695 look on him, 1:00:32.809,1:00:37.049 the staunchest of friends: 1:00:52.429,1:00:56.929 his freest deed of devotion 1:01:01.838,1:01:09.618 has struck my heart[br]with most hostile betrayal! 1:01:26.763,1:01:31.263 lf Tristan has betrayed me, 1:01:36.172,1:01:38.332 could l hope 1:01:41.978,1:01:47.718 that what his treachery has damaged 1:01:54.624,1:02:02.144 might be honourably restored[br]by Melot's words? 1:02:06.403,1:02:09.071 Phantoms of day, morning dreams, 1:02:09.072,1:02:14.412 deceiving and vain, away, begone! 1:02:14.644,1:02:16.664 This to me? 1:02:22.652,1:02:26.192 To me, Tristan, this? 1:02:36.399,1:02:44.439 Where now is loyalty[br]if Tristan has betrayed me? 1:02:46.943,1:02:52.543 Where are honour and true breeding 1:02:52.916,1:02:58.620 if Tristan, the defender of all honour, 1:02:58.621,1:03:01.061 has lost them? 1:03:11.434,1:03:14.154 Where is virtue, 1:03:20.577,1:03:28.077 which Tristan chose[br]as device for his shield, 1:03:30.420,1:03:35.580 if it has flown from my friend 1:03:40.630,1:03:45.270 and Tristan has betrayed me? 1:04:29.712,1:04:35.312 To what end the unstinted service, 1:04:38.221,1:04:44.326 the fame of honour, the mighty greatness 1:04:44.327,1:04:48.127 that you won for Marke 1:04:50.700,1:04:56.171 if fame and honour, might and greatness 1:04:56.172,1:05:05.732 and the unstinted service[br]must be paid with Marke's shame? 1:05:17.193,1:05:22.633 Did you deem my thanks too scant 1:05:23.700,1:05:29.004 in bequeathing to you for your very own 1:05:29.005,1:05:37.165 the fame and kingdom[br]that you had gained for me? 1:05:42.352,1:05:46.992 When his wife died childless 1:05:57.000,1:06:04.900 Marke loved you so[br]that he never would remarry. 1:06:11.447,1:06:21.123 When all at court and in the country[br]pressed him with pleas and warnings 1:06:21.124,1:06:31.204 to select a queen for the country[br]and a consort for himself; 1:06:33.503,1:06:37.205 when you yourself besought your uncle 1:06:37.206,1:06:44.479 graciously to grant the court's wish[br]and the people's will, 1:06:44.480,1:06:53.100 with craft and kindness,[br]resisting court and country, 1:06:53.890,1:06:59.370 resisting you yourself, he refused 1:07:04.867,1:07:09.667 until, Tristan, you threatened 1:07:13.876,1:07:24.786 to quit for ever his court and land[br]if you yourself were not sent off 1:07:24.787,1:07:28.987 to win the king a bride. 1:07:34.364,1:07:38.144 Then he let it be so. 1:08:03.526,1:08:08.846 Who could behold, who could know 1:08:16.739,1:08:19.739 this wondrous wife 1:08:24.547,1:08:29.307 that your valour won for me? 1:08:33.923,1:08:38.963 Who could proudly call her his 1:08:42.932,1:08:48.012 without deeming himself blessed? 1:08:54.377,1:09:02.977 One whom my longing never[br]emboldened me to approach, 1:09:05.054,1:09:10.814 whom my desire renounced, awestruck, 1:09:18.534,1:09:24.274 who, so splendid, fair and exalted, 1:09:29.979,1:09:35.019 could not but delight my soul, 1:09:43.793,1:09:50.493 despite foes and dangers, a queenly bride 1:09:52.935,1:09:56.615 you brought me hither. 1:10:14.590,1:10:23.698 Now that, through such a possession,[br]you, wretched man, had made my heart 1:10:23.699,1:10:32.507 more sensitive to pain than before,[br]why have you now wounded me so sorely, 1:10:32.508,1:10:41.088 where most tender, soft and open[br]l could be struck, 1:10:41.217,1:10:49.097 with never a hope[br]that l could ever be healed? 1:10:52.495,1:10:57.365 There, with your weapon's[br]torturing poison 1:10:57.366,1:11:02.904 that scorches and destroys[br]my senses and brain, 1:11:02.905,1:11:07.375 that denies me faith in my friend, 1:11:07.376,1:11:12.948 that fills my trusting heart[br]with suspicion, 1:11:12.949,1:11:17.419 so that now stealthily,[br]in the darkness of night, 1:11:17.420,1:11:23.800 l must lurk and creep up on my friend 1:11:31.067,1:11:36.787 and achieve the fall of my honour? 1:11:57.460,1:12:02.080 Why must l suffer this hell 1:12:06.836,1:12:11.336 that no heaven can restore? 1:12:20.216,1:12:23.216 Why this dishonour 1:12:35.865,1:12:40.905 for which no misery can atone? 1:13:05.161,1:13:10.601 Who will make known to the world 1:13:31.520,1:13:37.280 the inscrutable, deep, secret cause? 1:14:03.452,1:14:04.792 O king, 1:14:11.994,1:14:15.934 that l cannot tell you, 1:14:36.118,1:14:38.958 and what you ask 1:14:44.426,1:14:49.046 you can never hope to know. 1:16:04.406,1:16:08.766 Where Tristan now is going 1:16:18.187,1:16:22.967 will you, lsolde, follow him? 1:16:39.541,1:16:49.101 To a land, Tristan means,[br]where the sunlight never shines; 1:16:54.490,1:17:05.230 it is the dark land of night[br]from which my mother sent me forth 1:17:09.171,1:17:15.031 when he whom in death she conceived 1:17:16.545,1:17:22.525 in death she let go into the light: 1:17:32.995,1:17:42.935 there where she bore me,[br]which was the refuge for her love, 1:17:46.575,1:17:55.435 the wondrous realm of night[br]from which l first awoke, 1:17:59.722,1:18:03.682 that Tristan offers you, 1:18:04.059,1:18:08.679 where now he goes on ahead; 1:18:09.665,1:18:13.605 let lsolde now tell him 1:18:23.645,1:18:30.065 if she will follow, loyal and gracious. 1:18:43.465,1:18:52.185 When her friend once courted her[br]for a foreign land, 1:18:53.342,1:19:03.322 lsolde, loyal and gracious,[br]had to follow the ungracious one. 1:19:15.731,1:19:26.471 Now you lead the way to your own land[br]to show me your heritage: 1:19:31.680,1:19:41.480 how could l flee from the land[br]that spans the whole world? 1:19:43.592,1:19:52.192 lsolde will dwell[br]where Tristan's house and home is: 1:19:55.304,1:20:00.064 now show lsolde the way that 1:20:06.281,1:20:09.701 loyal and gracious... 1:20:13.755,1:20:16.895 ...she must follow! 1:20:51.894,1:20:55.463 Ha! Traitor! Vengeance, O king! 1:20:55.464,1:20:59.000 Will you endure this dishonour? 1:20:59.001,1:21:04.181 Who pits his life against mine? 1:21:07.242,1:21:15.262 This was my friend,[br]he loved me well and truly; 1:21:17.419,1:21:25.979 more than any man[br]he cared for my fame and honour. 1:21:27.396,1:21:30.731 He incited my heart to presumption 1:21:30.732,1:21:33.868 and led the forces urging me 1:21:33.869,1:21:37.505 to increased fame and honour 1:21:37.506,1:21:43.906 by giving you in marriage to the king! 1:21:50.552,1:21:53.832 Your glance, lsolde, 1:21:57.593,1:22:00.453 blinded him, too: 1:22:01.029,1:22:06.489 for passion my friend betrayed me 1:22:07.135,1:22:11.895 to the king whom l betrayed!