Tannhäuser / Richard Wagner ; Festspielhaus Baden-Baden ; directed for TV and video by Patrick Buttman ; a co-production of Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Nederlandse Opera Amsterdam.
Publisher:
Arthaus Musik,
Copyright Date:
2008
Description:
2 videodiscs (263 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Opera in 3 acts; libretto by the composer (Paris version, 1861). Robert Gambill (Tannhäuser) ; Camilla Nylund (Elisabeth) ; Waltraud Meier (Venus) ; Roman Trekel (Wolfram von Eschenbach) ; Stephen Milling (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen) ; Marcel Reijans (Walther von der Vogelweide) ; Tom Fox (Biterolf) ; Andreas Hörl (Reimar von Zweter) ; Florian Hoffmann (Heinrich der Schreiber) ; Katherina Müller (Ein junger Hirt) ; Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ; Philharmonia Chor Wien ; Philippe Jordan, conductor. Recorded in performance in 2008, Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden. Picture format 16:9, widescreen, NTSC. Booklet with program notes in English, German and French (34 pages) inserted in container. Special features: Tannhäuser, the revolutionary / a film by Reiner E. Moritz; includes interviews with stage director, conductor and cast, as well as backstage material (58 min.).
Summary:
The original title, "Tannhäuser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg," reveals the real nature of the opera, born by a fusion of two traditional sagas and dedicated to the dualism of spirituality and sensuality and the possibility of redemption through love.
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