Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
aria orduet performed in opera marking thesuicide oflovers ; a suicide.
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Liebestod.
Examples
-
1Adolf Hitler expressed the wish that, at the moment of his own annihilation, he should hear what is called the Liebestod, the love-death song of Isolde, from the third act of Tristan und Isolde.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
-
1Adolf Hitler expressed the wish that, at the moment of his own annihilation, he should hear what is called the Liebestod, the love-death song of Isolde, from the third act of Tristan und Isolde.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
-
1Adolf Hitler expressed the wish that, at the moment of his own annihilation, he should hear what is called the Liebestod, the love-death song of Isolde, from the third act of Tristan und Isolde.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
-
1Adolf Hitler expressed the wish that, at the moment of his own annihilation, he should hear what is called the Liebestod, the love-death song of Isolde, from the third act of Tristan und Isolde.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
-
1Adolf Hitler expressed the wish that, at the moment of his own annihilation, he should hear what is called the Liebestod, the love-death song of Isolde, from the third act of Tristan und Isolde.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871 MICHAEL KNOX BERAN 2007
-
*According to literary critic William Haver at SUNY Binghamton, the Hasler character through his death is "a Liebestod which is that very impossibility of subjectivity's coming to terms that is his subjectivity: his death is his identity."
Nick Mamatas' Journal nihilistic_kid 2009
-
Despite a little pitchiness at the start of Act II and a loss of some power in the final "Liebestod" compared to my memory, she remains one of my favorites.
Archive 2007-04-01 2007
-
Despite a little pitchiness at the start of Act II and a loss of some power in the final "Liebestod" compared to my memory, she remains one of my favorites.
Second Coming 2007
-
The strange, beautiful love duet in Act Two was similarly wonderful, and Christine Brewer had power to spare for the "Liebestod" finale four-and-a-half hours into the evening.
Liebestod sfmike 2006
-
The strange, beautiful love duet in Act Two was similarly wonderful, and Christine Brewer had power to spare for the "Liebestod" finale four-and-a-half hours into the evening.
Archive 2006-10-01 sfmike 2006
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.