Tannhäuser: Concert Performance listing on Broadway Baby

Richard Wagners Tannhuser is a masterful exploration of the many aspects of love, and of the struggle to reconcile the sensual and the spiritual.

The musician Tannhuser has left the court of the Wartburg to become the consort of the goddess Venus. Disillusioned with her hedonistic realm, he yearns for spiritual nourishment and a reunion with his former beloved, Elisabeth. But if she and the other Wartburg inhabitants learn where he has been, will they ever forgive him?

The work features some of the composers greatest writing for chorus, alongside solo numbers such as Tannhusers plea for freedom, Elisabeths exultant greeting to the Wartburg Hall and Wolframs poignant song to the Evening Star.

Expert Wagnerian Sir Donald Runnicless interpretation of Tannhuser at the 2013 BBC Proms was rapturously received. He now conducts the Deutsche Oper Berlin in what promises to be an unforgettable concert performance.

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Supported by Donald and Louise MacDonald.

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Sir Donald Runnicles Conductor

Clay Hilley Tannhuser

Emma Bell Elisabeth

Thomas Lehman Wolfram

Irene Roberts Venus

Albert Pesendorfer Hermann

Markus Brck Biterolf

Attilio Glaser Walther

Gideon Poppe Heinrich

Tyler Zimmerman Reinmar

Meechot Marrero Young Shepherd

Wagner Tannhuser

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