[Met Performance] CID:8340



Tristan und Isolde
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, January 22, 1890




Tristan und Isolde (12)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Tristan
Heinrich Vogl

Isolde
Lilli Lehmann

Kurwenal
Joseph Beck

Brangäne
Louise Meisslinger

King Marke
Emil Fischer

Melot
Albert Mittelhauser

Sailor's Voice/Shepherd
Paul Kalisch

Steersman
Jean Doré


Conductor
Anton Seidl


Director
Theodore Habelmann





Tristan und Isolde received five performances this season.

Review 1:

Review in The New York Times

METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE.

The performance of "Tristan and Isolde" at the Metropolitan Opera House last night was in some respects the best ever given in the house. Frau Lehmann's Isolde is an impersonation which has grown in depth with each season till now it may well be doubted whether the lyric stage in this country has ever seen anything that approached it in the tremendousness of its dramatic force and intensity. It has its vocal deficiencies, to be sure, but it would be a very hypercritical person who would take them into consideration when under the influence of her work.

Herr Vogl is by no means a great Tristan. He is earnest and his acting is generally significant, but he cannot sing, and, when one remembers Niemann, Vogl seems a rather diminutive person. Herr Beck replaces Herr Robinson as Kurvenal, and Fräulein Meisslinger was the new Brangäne in place of Fräulein Bran



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