The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-30
ENGLISH TRISTAN
AT METROPOLITAN
Music Lovers Hear Waener's
Opera for Second
Time.
IMPRESSIVE AS BEFORE
Well Known Men and Women
Are Seen in the
Boxes.
IMPRESSIVE AS BEFORE

The second performance OF Tristan
and Isolda" at the metropolitan Opera
House last evening brought further evil
denae of the eugcrness OF music lovers
to hear this long silent hymn of human
passion. The tests OF public interest at
the opera are well defined, The filling
Of enll the seats on a Monday night
meSns little. They are always in use on
this fashionable evening. The crowding
OF the standing room is a clearer proof
of Interest But best of all is the abb
soTrtion Of the audience in the perform
ance and lire unmstaSable sincerity of
It's applause.
There WAS more ease on the stage than
at the frs, representation. This was
10 be expected. But there was not more
repose. Tic.e WAS still want of weight
and q superfluity of nervous energy.
This must 6r attributed partly to the
lack OF proper balance between voices
anc orchestra. Mr.. Bodanzky has de-
~ . ed thrilling. pulsating interpreta-
On Of The score. but he has pitched his
dynamic level somewhat too high. He
asks too much of every one in the cast
except Nine. Matzenauer. whose power
full voice surmounts the volume of in
SlTunlentHI tone IN most places.
Her iInpersonation of Isoldu is ma
jestic, but ii lacks the note of melting
tenderness. Her attitude toward Iris
tan is gracious. even winning. but it
hardly gives the illusion of utter self
forgetfulness. But after all considera-
tions of this kind occur only to a mind
stepped in years of Tristan and Isolda''
performances and perhaps too Seenly
aware of the vast possibilities OF the
work. Last evenings performance was
one deserving much commentator.
Nine. Matzenauer's associates were
the same as before. Mr.. Semhach made
the words of Tristan Ineligible wher-
ever the music would let him and pre-
sented an inpersonation which possessed
dignity and sincerity. Mr.. Whitehills
hnTrenol was again stalwart and tender
by turns. Miss Gordon's Branoaene
showed Improvement: The stage bust
ness in the changing of the draughts
had been altered for the better. but il
was still not sufficiently graphic. Points
Of tits kind cannot be politely handed
II an audience; they must be violently
thrown
Society was we'll represented for the
first night of the third week at the
Metropolitan.
Mrs. Richard Gambrills guests in box
% were Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Gray Girls
void, Mrs. Work Hev:.t. Mr.. Stanley
Mortimer and Mr.. w. Forbes Morgan.
With Mr.. and Mrs. j. Nelson Borland
in box 3 were Mr.. and Mrs. Charles r.
Scott and Mr.. and Mrs. George b. Post.
Mrs George l.. Rives. Mr.. W. Rhine
lander Stewart and Mr.. Il. De Peyster
Livingston were with Mr.. and Mrs.
George Henry Warren in box 49,
With Mrs. Charles +. Hoffman in box
p were Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence l.. Gill
| lespie, Miss Marion Hoffman and Mr.. r
Thornton Wilson.
The guests OF Mrs. Henry Clews in
box u were Mrs. James f. ID. Lanier
Mrs VI. Lawrence Keene. Mr.. Emory
Potue and Mr.. /. Chauncey McKeever
There were also in the audience Mrs
Henry Pearce, Mrs. Jose Aymar, Mr.
and Mrs. Paul u. Cravath. Mr.. Fred
eric Potts Moore. Mrs. George IA. Bend
Mrs Henry =. Fletcher, Mrs. George
Howard. Miss Perrin and Miss Mary Dc
| Peyster Carey.