Word: tristans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Composer Italo Montemezzi wrote L'Amore dei Tre Re, Poet Sem Benelli provided him with a libretto which cried for music of exquisite passion and tenderness. The fact that parts of it recall the music of Tristan & Isolde never seemed important. Montemezzi's score has surge and spontaneity of its own, enough to arouse high hopes for his one-act La Notte di Zoraima (The Night of Zoraima), given its U. S. premiere last week at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...Tristan the Hero, wounded by Traitor Melot's sword thrust, was dying one night last week on the stage of the Festspielhaus at Bayreuth, Germany. As Kurvenal, his faithful manservant, stood by him, Tristan sang feverishly, sometimes shouting, sometimes sinking into exhausted murmurs. Patiently the audience attended his efforts. But a larger audience, more excited, spread all over the world, listened to Tristan und Isolde through loudspeakers. It was a tradition-breaking radio broadcast: first one to come from Bayreuth. To insure its excellence, all other broadcasting in Germany had been hushed. The Reichs Rundfunk Gesellschaft sent...
...minutes, while Tristan raved, U.S. listeners waited. From their radios came substitute music. Atmospheric conditions were not yet right. Then, amid buzzings and squawkings, came Tristan's voice and the shepherd's pipings which tell him that Isolde's ship is in sight. Although the orchestra (under Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler) was less clear than the singers, reception improved during the last 20 minutes. Best voice was that of Basso Josef Manowarda (King Mark). Others: Tenor Gotthelf Pistor (Tristan), Soprano Nanny Larsen-Todsen (Isolde), Baritone Rudolph Bockelmann (Kurvenal...
...Tristan bit was followed three days later by an hour-and-a quarter program from the Mozart Festival at Salzburg, Austria: the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Conductor Bruno Walter (who will conduct Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony next winter) in an all-Mozart program; and part of a promenade concert at Queen's Hall, London, under Conductor Sir Henry Joseph Wood. Clearer than NBC's first program, this one was not relayed but picked up by short-wave and re-transmitted. Symphonic-minded radiauditors were pleased. Heretofore radio policy had been to keep programs short...
Bayreuth. Wagner Festival, July 21-Aug. 19. Tannhauser will be given July 21, Aug. i, Aug. 5, Aug. 8, Aug. 17 under Arturo Toscanini. Parsifal, also under Toscanini, will be given July 22, Aug. 2, Aug. 6, Aug. 9, Aug. 19. Tristan und Isolde will be conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler July 23, Aug. 3, Aug. 18. The Ring under Karl Elmendorff will be given twice?July...