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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Lohengrin, with Lauritz Melchior and Helen Traubel...
...audience, the season's first Tristan, which Perlea directed, sounded different from any performance they had ever heard before. The voices were familiar: Melchior and Traubel sang the title roles. But the performance seemed to have a new sweetness and clarity, a subdued splendor. Says Perlea, "Too many conductors mistake heroic for loud." In Rigoletto, he proved that he knew how to build a musical melodrama without throwing away climaxes. The result: when the real climax came in the last-act murder scene, it was overwhelming. Carmen was the same story; with the pace he gave Bizet...
...that night. Even though she had not sung it for four years, and never at the Met, blonde Regina Resnik was told that she would have to come down from her rock as one of the Valkyries and sing the part. Then the Met got a real sticker: Helen Traubel's doctor phoned to say that she had laryngitis, would not be able to go on as Brünnhilde. The Met's other Brünnhilde, Astrid Varnay, was not available. Finally, at 4 p.m., someone recalled that the wife of new Viennese Baritone Ferdinand Frantz...
Wagner: Die Walküre, Duet from Act I, Scene 3; Act III complete (Helen Traubel, soprano; Herbert Janssen, baritone; Emery Darcy, tenor; vocal ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 4 sides, LP). Great music sung by great singers. Conductor Rodzinski gives it the pace and force to make it an exciting performance. Recording: excellent...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Tristan und Isolde, with Lauritz Melchior and Helen Traubel...