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Tannhäuser

und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg

 

Composer

Richard Wagner

Librettist

Richard Wagner

Venue and Dates

Bayerische Staatsoper

24, 26 July 2003

Conductor

Jun Märkl

Director

David Alden

Performers

Landgraf Hermann : Kurt Moll

Tannhäuser : Robert Gambill
Wolfram von Eschenbach : Simon Keenlyside
Walther von der Vogelweide : Ulrich Reß
Biterolf : Ralf Lukas

Heinrich der Schreiber : Manolito Mario Franz

Reinmar von Zweter : Gerhard Auer
Elisabeth : Emily Magee
Venus : Waltraud Meier

Soloists from the Tölzer Knabenchor - A young shepherd and Four Pages

Orchestra and Chorus of the Bavarian State Opera.

Choirmaster Udo Mehrpohl



Production

Staging: Roni Toren
Costumes: Buki Shiff

Choreography: Vivienne Newport

Lighting: Pat Collins



What the critics say

A review for Andante.com of the 2003 production

http://www.andante.com/article/article.cfm?id=21850

“The estimable Simon Keenlyside was luxury casting as our hero's buddy, the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach”