Tannhauser

Composer: Wagner, Richard

Librettist/Text Author: Wagner, Richard

Conductor: Sinopoli, Giuseppe

Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Ensemble: Gyor Ballet Company

Chorus: Bayreuth Festival Chorus

Chorus Master: Balatsch, Norbert

A Young Shepherd: Robinson, Joy

Biterolf: Vogel, Siegfried

Elisabeth: Studer, Cheryl

Heinrich: Bieber, Clemens

Hermann: Sotin, Hans

Reinmar: Solyom-Nagy, Sandor

Tannhauser: Versalle, Richard

Venus: Engert-Ely, Ruthild

Walter: Pell, William

Wolfram: Brendel, Wolfgang

Costume Designer: Heinrich, Reinhard

Choreographer: Markovic, Ivan

Stage Director: Wagner, Wolfgang

Television Director: Wagner, Wolfgang

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Festival: Bayreuth Festival

Venue: Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Playing Time: 03:08:09

Catalogue Number: A05007037

Libretto

Tannhauser (NTSC)

Synopsis

Tannhauser (NTSC)

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"Thunderous applause, elation", wrote the prestigious Germany daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, and Rome's La Repubblica noted the "triumphal success and storm of applause" that greeted Giuseppe Sinopoli and the ensemble at Tannhauser's 1989 Bayreuth Festival premiere. Directed by Wolfgang Wagner, Richard Wagner's grandson, this Tannhauser production was one of the high points of the Bayreuth Festival during the latter part of the 1980s. The abstract starkness of Wolfgang Wagner's production is underscored by the crystalline clarity and vigor of Giuseppe Sinopoli's conducting, which particularly highlights the progressive aspects of the score. This Tannhauser production gathers together some of the great Wagner singers of our time such as Cheryl Studer (Elizabeth), Wolfgang Brendel (Wolfram), Richard Versalle (Tannhauser) and Hans Sotin (Landgrave).