[Met Performance] CID:146930



Tristan und Isolde
Metropolitan Opera House, Mon, February 2, 1948




Tristan und Isolde (327)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Tristan
Lauritz Melchior

Isolde
Helen Traubel

Kurwenal
Herbert Janssen

Brang?ne
Blanche Thebom

King Marke
Mih?ly Sz?kely

Melot
Emery Darcy

Sailor's Voice
John Garris

Shepherd
Leslie Chabay

Steersman
Philip Kinsman


Conductor
Fritz Busch





Traubel's costumes were designed by Adrian.

Review 1:

Review , unsigned, in Musical America

The season's fourth Tristan, Feb. 2, was a performance of superior merits. Mr. Melchior, who had conflicts with the pitch in the love scene, made handsome atonement in the third act, particularly in the curse of the potion. It was Helen Traubel, however, who walked off with the chief vocal honors of the evening and who sang the dreamier passages of the duet with exquisitely floating soft tones and prevailing justness of intonation. Beautiful, likewise, was the tower song of Blanche Thebom, whose Brang?ne grows from one performance to the next. Mihaly Szekely's King Mark is amazing for its searching vocal beauty



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