[Met Performance] CID:105190



Tannhäuser
Metropolitan Opera House, Wed, April 9, 1930




Tannhäuser (259)
Richard Wagner | Richard Wagner
Tannhäuser
Lauritz Melchior

Elisabeth
Gertrude Kappel

Wolfram
Gustav Schützendorf

Venus
Elisabeth Ohms

Hermann
Siegfried Tappolet

Walther
Marek Windheim

Heinrich
Max Bloch

Biterolf
Arnold Gabor

Reinmar
James Wolfe

Shepherd
Louise Lerch

Dance
Lilyan Ogden

Dance
Jessie Rogge

Dance
Martha Henkel


Conductor
Artur Bodanzky







Review 1:

Review in Town Topics

Wednesday night's "Tannhäuser" is a different story. That was altogether too indicative of the tag end of a long, hard season. It was a mistake to thrust Mme. Kappel at this stage of the game into the gently youthful duties of Elisabeth. Anybody who doubts this should have heard her heavy, tired-out delivery of Elisabeth's prayer, with its insistent scooping and its distressing quarrels with the pitch. Nor was Mme. Ohms happily assigned as Venus. To the eye she made a not displeasing, if very stalwart, goddess. Her voice and singing, however, disclosed little of seductiveness. Mr. Melchior is heard and seen to less advantage in "Tannhäuser" than in some other of his roles. The end-of-the-season conditions brought about the allotment of the lyric Wolfram to Mr. Schützendorf, and it must be said that though his baritone's hard-driven voice is usually associated with the decidedly unlyric measures of Beckmesser and Alberich, he supplied about the most satisfactory individual contribution to the evening's farrago. The beardless Landgraf of Mr. Tappolet exhibited a serviceable routine, although both in appearance and in vocal timbre this basso is too juvenile for the role of Elisabeth's reigning uncle.



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