| 释义 |
‖ Liebestod, liebestod|ˈliːbəstoːt|
[G., lit. ‘love's death’.]
An aria or a duet proclaiming the suicide of lovers (see also quot. 1964); hence, such a suicide; also fig.
1889G. B. Shaw London Music 1888–89 (1937) 249 Isolde's Liebestod was a failure. 1928in D. McCarthy Drama (1940) 112 Each pair sinks into the euthanasia of a matter-of-fact liebes-tod. 1947A. Einstein Mus. Romantic Era xvi. 283 Yet this festival opera [sc. Aïda] ends pianissimo and con sordini with a Liebestod, which is not Romantically philosophical, but purely human. 1959Listener 20 Aug. 280/2 Would the imagination..not die a Liebestod at the very moment it attains its goal? 1964Conc. Oxf. Dict. Opera 223/2 Liebestod, the title used today for Isolde's death scene in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, but used by Wagner of the mystic love duet in Act 2. 1971G. Steiner In Bluebeard's Castle i. 25 It is permissible to see..in the Wagnerian Liebestod surrogates for the lost dangers of revolutionary action. |