Tannhäuser

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Richard Wagner

What does a man want? Love or lust? Answer: both!  Tannhäuser has feasted on lust in the realm of Venus. But his excesses are anything but compatible with the strait-laced morality of the society in which he competes in song for Elisabeth's love. That precipitates an uproar …Tannhäuser: artist, outcast – the destiny of an outsider set against the intoxicating power of music at its highest erotic level. A Wagnerian banquet.



In German

 
Date

Nationaltheater

24. und 28. September, 1. Oktober 2005: Bunka Keikan Tokyo im Rahmen des Japan-Gastspiels der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Munich Opera Festival 2013
Saturday, 29 June 2013
Nationaltheater
6.00 p.m. - app. 10.35 p.m.
Playing time: 4 hours 35 minutes (2 intermissions)
Prices L: 163 / 142 / 117 / 91 / 64 / 39 / 15 / 11
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Cast

Conductor Kent Nagano
Based on a production by David Alden
Set Roni Toren
Costumes Buki Shiff
Choreography Vivienne Newport
Lighting Pat Collins
Chorus Sören Eckhoff

Hermann Christof Fischesser
Tannhäuser Robert Dean Smith
Wolfram von Eschenbach Matthias Goerne
Walther von der Vogelweide Ulrich Reß
Biterolf Goran Jurić
Heinrich der Schreiber Kenneth Roberson
Reinmar von Zweter Christoph Stephinger
Elisabeth Anne Schwanewilms
Venus Petra Lang
Ein junger Hirt / Vier Edelknaben Tölzer Knabenchor

The Bavarian State Orchestra
The Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera

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