Wagner: Tannhäuser

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

David Alden

Language

German

Country

Germany

Release date

1 January 1994

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  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