Wagner: Tannhäuser (2020)

Overview

Anew production of Tannhäuser, which was premiered on 26 July 2019 and presented the Bayreuth debut of conductor Valery Gergiev, as well as the house debut of young soprano star Lise Davidsen. Tobias Kratzer’s staging presented Tannhäuser as a wildly contemporary parable of art and freedom which was praised as “novel” and “wrenching” (New York Times) and received exceptional press acclaim. hey were joined by mezzo soprano Elena Zhidkova’s Venus (“scene stealing”, according to Opera Today), baritone Markus Eiche’s Wolfram and Stephen Milling’s Landgraf.

Cast

Stephen Milling

Landgraf Hermann

Stephen Gould

Tannhäuser

Markus Eiche

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Daniel Behle

Walther von der Vogelweide

Kay Stiefermann

Biterolf

Jorge Rodríguez-Norton

Heinrich der Schreiber

Wilhelm Schwinghammer

Reinmar von Zweter

Lise Davidsen

Elisabeth