Wagner: Tannhäuser (1994)
David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 1994. Shot over three days by leading opera director Brian Large, this recording benefits from the ideal technical conditions made possible by a closed session. Alden, one of the most iconoclastic interpreters of classical opera, stirs up the visionary, erotic, and archetypal elements in Wagner's work. The cold, forbidding aspect of the stylized and predominantly monochrome sets and costumes by Roni Toren and Buki Shiff manifests the strait-jacket of tradition from which Tannhäuser seeks to free himself in this powerful opera.
- Date of release
- 1994-01-01
- TMDB
- 9.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 3h 13m
- Genres
- Music
- Director
- David Alden
Casting
- René Kollo — Tannhäuser
- Waltraud Meier — Venus
- Bernd Weikl — Wolfram von Eschenbach
- Nadine Secunde — Elisabeth
- Jan-Hendrik Rootering — Hermann
- Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö — Walther von der Vogelweide
- Hans Günter Nöcker — Biterolf
- James Anderson — Heinrich der Schreiber
- Gerhard Auer — Reinmar von Zweter
- Johannes Pohl — Hirt
- Zubin Mehta — Self - Conductor
- Bayerisches Staatsorchester — Self - Orchestra
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