Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Castle

Jul 10, 1978

3h 29m

★ 8.0

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.

Genres

Music

Drama

Production Companies

Deutsche Grammophon

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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

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