What Are You Listening To?

[Tiggi]

As briefly as possible:

Tristan is the orphan nephew of Cornish king Marke, and kills Irish emissary Morold, and sends his severed head back to Dublin. He's injured in the altercation, and travels to Ireland in disguise to be healed by Irish princess Isolde.

He escorts Isolde to Cornwall to marry Marke, and Isolde recognises Tristan as the murderer of her betrothed Morold. Her lady-in-waiting Brangane swaps the poison that Isolde intends to use to kill Tristan & herself for a love potion.

Tristan & Isolde fall in love, and are discovered whilst spending a night together on Marke's estate. Tristan kills his betrayer, and is injured again. He flees to his castle in Brittany where he is gravely ill, and awaits Isolde's arrival to heal him once again. As she arrives, he dies, as do numerous others in the ensuing fighting when Marke's party also arrive.

Isolde convinces herself that he's not dead, and collapses on his body in eternal bliss.

Star-crossed lovers, indeed...