A tragedy about the immoral love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseut/Isolde. It depicts Tristan's mission to escort Iseult from Ireland to Cornwall to marry his uncle ...
No surprise, Tristan and Isolde fall goo-goo eyes in love and embrace ... paving the way for atonal modern operas, that inform the legend’s unambiguous subtext: sex, more so than the violent ...