Duration
183 Min
Wagner: Tannhäuser (Bayreuth, 2019)
Opera
Kratzer, Gergiev
Production Date: 27/07/2019
183 Min
Tobias Kratzer's production of Tannhäuser, which was first performed at the Bayreuth Festival in 2019, begins as a road movie with a troupe composed of outsiders and dropouts. Kratzer takes his cue from Wagner's slogan "free in wanting, free in doing, free in enjoying" and also makes reference to the festival's history. Germany's FAZ found it "so tasteful, imaginative, pointed and funny that the audience has to be riveted and laugh, even if it becomes bitterly serious at the end." While tenor Stephen Gould has been a highly regarded regular at the festival for years, Valery Gergiev and soprano Lise Davidsen, who is at the start of her international career, make their highly anticipated Bayreuth debuts in this production.
- Soloists:
- Daniel Behle (Tenor), Wilhelm Schwinghammer (Bass), Stephen Milling (Bass), Stephen Gould (Tenor), Markus Eiche (Baritone), Kay Stiefermann (Baritone), Jorge Rodriguez-Norton (Tenor), Lise Davidsen (Soprano), Elena Zhidkova (Mezzo-Soprano), Katharina Konradi (Soprano), Cornelia Ragg (Soprano), Lucilla Graham (Mezzo-Soprano), Annette Gutjahr (Alto), Manni Laudenbach (Actor/Singer)
- Ensembles:
- Bayreuth Festival Chorus, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
- Conductor:
- Valery Gergiev
