[Met Performance] CID:99050



Tristan und Isolde
Metropolitan Opera House, Thu, March 29, 1928 Matinee





Tristan und Isolde (179)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Tristan
Walter Kirchhoff

Isolde
Gertrude Kappel

Kurwenal
Clarence Whitehill

Brangäne
Karin Branzell

King Marke
Michael Bohnen

Melot
Arnold Gabor

Sailor's Voice
Max Bloch

Shepherd
George Meader

Steersman
Louis D'Angelo


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky







Review 1:

Review of Francis D. Perkins in the New York Tribune

'Tristan' Matinee Closes Season's Wagner Cycle

Memorable Performance Again Features Gertrude Kappel

The season's Matinee Wagner Cycle was brought to a close yesterday afternoon with a performance of "Tristan und Isolde," the fourth representation of that work since Gertrude Kappel first disclosed her remarkable Isolde to New York in January.

Mme. Kappel was again the Isolde at yesterday's performance and, again, she moved her audience profoundly by the beauty and expressiveness of her impersonation. Especially in her conveyance of the final scene - in which she was seconded by the deeply felt conducting of Mr. Bodanzky - did Mme. Kappel stir her hearers by the exalted pathos, the spiritual illumination, which she captured from the marvelous music and made a living part of her embodiment.

Walter Kirchhoff , whose Tristan was heard here last season, caught admirably the mood of difficult reserve that shapes the character in the first act. But as the transported lover of the second and the delirious agonist of the third, he was somewhat less persuasive.

Mme. Branzell as Brangäne, Mr. Whitehill as Kurvenal, and Mr. Bohnen as King Mark contributed familiar impersonations to a performance that moved often upon a high plane of tragic eloquence. It is a pleasure to pay special tribute to Mr. Bodanzky's conducting of the "Liebestod," which he read with a breadth and tenderness that he has seldom surpassed.

The fine audience, which has been one of the distinctions of the Wagner Cycle performances this season, was justly enthusiastic.



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