📜 Overview:
TANNHÄUSER UND DER SÄNGERKRIEG AUF WARTBURG is a grand opera by Richard Wagner in three acts. After experiencing boundless sensuality and freedom with the fun-loving Venus (soprano), the singer Tannhäuser (Tenor) finds it impossible to conform to the cultured setting of his betrothed Elizabeth (soprano), who loves him. During a singing contest, Tannhäuser describes the affair with Venus as the ultimate love experience and because of that, he is cast out from the established society. Thanks to Elizabeth's intervention, he is allowed to undertake a pilgrimage to the Pope to ask for the Holy Father's pardon. If the Pope accepts to forgive him, he would be allowed to take back his place in society. Tannhäuser accepts. But fate will not allow him to meet with his beloved Elizabeth again in this life. This is a recording of the legendary staging by Götz Friedrich for the 1978 Bayreuth Festival conducted by Sir Colin Davis.
🌏 Languages Available:
German
📆 Date Released:
1978-07-10
⌚ Running Time:
209 mins
⭐ Vote Average:
8.0
Beloved Cast
Elisabeth / Venus
Gwyneth Jones
Tannhäuser
Spas Wenkoff
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Bernd Weikl
Landgraf
Hans Sotin
Walther von der Vogelweide
Robert Schunk
Biterolf
Franz Mazura
Heinrich der Schreiber
John Pickering
Reinmar von Zweter
Heinz Feldhoff
Ein junger Hirt
Klaus Brettschneider
Edelknaben
Irene Hammann
Edelknaben
Angelika Jung-Nowski
Edelknaben
Roswitha Korff-Krüger
Edelknaben
Natuse von Stegmann
Conductor
Colin Davis
