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Composer: Wagner, Richard

Composer: Liszt, Franz

Composer: Beethoven, Ludwig van

Composer: Rasch, Torsten

The Zurich Affair - Wagner's One and Only Love

Volle, Michael

Haefliger, Andreas

Treutler, Annika

Imai, Hiroko

Auster, Sophie

Saartamo, Joonas

Pfeil, Julienne

Hauffe, Rudiger

London Symphony Orchestra

Set Designer: Neubert, Jens

Television Producer: Neubert, Jens

Television Director: Neubert, Jens

Conductor: Stier, Eckehard

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Mathilde Wesendonck: Auster, Sophie

Minna Wagner: Pfeil, Julienne

The Singer: Volle, Michael

Otto Wesendonck: Hauffe, Rudiger

Piano: Haefliger, Andreas

Piano: Imai, Hiroko

Piano: Treutler, Annika

Richard Wagner: Saartamo, Joonas

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Year of Production: 2021

Playing Time: 01:56:48

Catalogue Number: 2.110758

UPC: 747313575855

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An exile from his native land following the failed revolution of 1848, the impoverished Richard Wagner's is in Zurich working on his opera Tristan und Isolde. There he meets Otto and Mathilde Wesendonck, ardent admirers of his music. Wagner's passionate and scandalous affair with Mathilde, whose poems he set to music, is explored in this featuring film by director Jen's Neubert. After their relationship ended, Wagner left Zurich for Italy, forever remembering Mathilde as 'my first and only love'.