Tristan and Isolde are deeply woven into modern love tragedy. The funeral song for Tristan, Mild und Leise, is the song of the love that challenges the power of death itself. Before Rock and Roll there were only Opera to work the emotions on the grand scale that only music can, and here Isolde has taken the drink that will bind her for ever to Tristan, and Romeo to Juliet, and Cathy to Heathcliff, and Quint to....