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[Met Performance] CID:155310
Tristan und Isolde
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, December 9, 1950 Matinee Broadcast
Broadcast Matinee Broadcast
Tristan und Isolde (343)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Rebroadcast on Sirius Metropolitan Opera Radio
Review 1:
Quaintance Eaton in Musical America
The cast in the second performance of Wagner?s opera was unchanged, but the elements which made up a magnificent total seemed even more hotly fused than before, with the result that the performance glowed from beginning to end. Fritz Reiner conducted with a drive and an intensity which never led down the high level, and the singers maintained the pitch along with him. Helen Traubel, Blanche Thebom, Sven Nilsson, and Paul Schoeffler were all at their best, and Ramon Vinay showed himself more at ease in the title role than before, singing with greater command of legato and with incandescence of tone. His death scene, admirably contrived, went off smoothly this time, so that when he fell backwards on the couch, his head was not forced off the edge to hang backwards though the remainder of the opera, but remained on the couch. This season, in the new staging of Dino Yannapoulos, the close of the first act is bright with new banners and costumes; the second act scene has been rearranged so that Isolde goes up and downstairs at an oblique angle. The lighting in this act is better, too, for it is almost dim enough to provide the darkness called for in the score.
Search by season: 1950-51
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Tristan und Isolde
Metropolitan Opera House, Sat, December 9, 1950 Matinee Broadcast
Broadcast Matinee Broadcast
Tristan und Isolde (343)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
- Tristan
- Ramon Vinay
- Isolde
- Helen Traubel
- Kurwenal
- Paul Sch?ffler
- Brang?ne
- Blanche Thebom
- KIng Marke
- Sven Nilsson
- Melot
- Hugh Thompson
- Sailor's Voice
- Thomas Hayward
- Shepherd
- Leslie Chabay
- Steersman
- Lawrence Davidson
- Conductor
- Fritz Reiner
Rebroadcast on Sirius Metropolitan Opera Radio
Review 1:
Quaintance Eaton in Musical America
The cast in the second performance of Wagner?s opera was unchanged, but the elements which made up a magnificent total seemed even more hotly fused than before, with the result that the performance glowed from beginning to end. Fritz Reiner conducted with a drive and an intensity which never led down the high level, and the singers maintained the pitch along with him. Helen Traubel, Blanche Thebom, Sven Nilsson, and Paul Schoeffler were all at their best, and Ramon Vinay showed himself more at ease in the title role than before, singing with greater command of legato and with incandescence of tone. His death scene, admirably contrived, went off smoothly this time, so that when he fell backwards on the couch, his head was not forced off the edge to hang backwards though the remainder of the opera, but remained on the couch. This season, in the new staging of Dino Yannapoulos, the close of the first act is bright with new banners and costumes; the second act scene has been rearranged so that Isolde goes up and downstairs at an oblique angle. The lighting in this act is better, too, for it is almost dim enough to provide the darkness called for in the score.
Search by season: 1950-51
Search by title: Tristan und Isolde,
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