29-06-2011, 19:21
Keeping with classical pieces that fit the theme of the movie: at the end of Baz Luhrmann's Romeo+Juliet, the music right after Juliet shoots herself is Isolde's final aria (the so-called "Liebestod") from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. In the opera, Isolde sings it as she dies before Tristan's dead body in order to be united with him in death, which is what Juliet is also doing.
It comes at the very end of this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cXDElr8Wks
It comes at the very end of this clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cXDElr8Wks
