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...Karl Liebl, substituting as Tristan for the ailing Ramon Vinay, had neither stage presence nor the power to match the Nilsson salvos. Baritone Walter Cassel as Kurvenal and Bass Jerome Hines as King Mark both turned in workmanlike performances, and Soprano Irene Dalis was impressive as Brangaene. Conductor Karl Boehm led his orchestra through a methodical reading. As for the decor, with the world's best to choose from, the Met had again picked the second-rate. The sets by German Designer Teo Otto were pedestrian and confusing: starkly realistic castle turrets and ramparts set alongside fanciful, gold-leafed...
...power. The sets by Germany's Caspar Neher are starkly effective: a phosphorescently glowing landscape dominated by a blood-red moon and lumpish, Van Gogh-like stumps of trees; a solidly bourgeois German hill town, contrasting with the madness unfolding before it. Hero of the evening: Conductor Karl Boehm, who, after an unprecedented 24 rehearsals, led his huge orchestra through Berg's convoluted score with masterful clarity and passion...
This topnotch recording, conducted by Vienna's Karl Boehm and sung by an outstanding cast headed by Soprano Leonie Rysanek and Bass-Baritone Paul Schoeffler, reveals the Strauss score in all its turbulent brilliance, at times long-winded and meandering, but always the work of a master...
...anguished Donna Elvira. And as Leporello, Basso Fernando Corena not only lurched and grimaced about the stage in convincing pantomime of a man clutching hard to his sanity but turned in some of the finest singing of the evening. In his first appearance at the Metropolitan, Viennese Conductor Karl Boehm, while distinctly slow-paced, achieved a fine balance between his unfamiliar orchestra and his veteran cast. In sum, Mozart and Met in their glory...
World Music Festivals (Sun. 2 :05 p.m., CBS). Part II, Salzburg Festival. Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Karl Boehm, Dimitri Mitropoulos...