Tannhäuser - Wiener Staatsoper

It is about nothing less than love. This is what the Wartburg singing community asks for, and this is what Tannhäuser also seeks: he finds almost endless lust with the goddess of love Venus, and hopes to attain bliss with the "pure" Elisabeth. In his vacillation between satisfaction and renunciation, between guilt and protest, in being torn between fulfillment and exaltation, he corresponds entirely to the grammar of the Romantic age - and still speaks directly to us today.

Cast

C

Clay Hilley

Tannhäuser

Malin Byström

Elisabeth

Ekaterina Gubanova

Venus

M

Martin Gantner

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Günther Groissböck

Landgrave Hermann

D

Daniel Jenz

Walther von der Vogelweide

I

Ilia Staple

Young Shepherd

S

Simon Neal

Biterolf

L

Lukas Schmidt

Heinrich der Schreiber

Marcus Pelz

Reinmar von Zweter