Word: tristan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French, German or Italian. Jonel Perlea, the goateed Rumanian conductor whom the Met hired this season, had no specialty, and the Met decided he needed none. When he arrived in Manhattan in October, he was told that he would have to work in all three wings. His first assignments: Tristan und Isolde...
...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...