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Romantic opera in three acts - 1845

Composer Richard Wagner · Libretto by Richard Wagner
In German language with English and German surtitles

Wednesday, 10. March 2021
05:00 pm – 09:45 pm
Nationaltheater

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Place: in front of the Königsloge, 1st tier
Start: approx. 10 minutes after the end of the performance
The number of seats is limited; free entry.

Duration est. 4 hours 45 minutes · 1. Akt (est. 05:00 pm - 06:10 pm ) · Interval (est. 06:10 pm - 07:00 pm ) · 2. Akt (est. 07:00 pm - 08:10 pm ) · Interval (est. 08:10 pm - 08:50 pm ) · 3. Akt (est. 08:50 pm - 09:45 pm )

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Premiere at 21. May 2017

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Cast

Conductor
Simone Young
Based on a production by
Romeo Castellucci
Choreography
Cindy Van Acker
Artistic Consultant
Silvia Costa
Dramaturgy
Piersandra Di Matteo
Dramaturgy
Malte Krasting
Video
Marco Giusti
Choruses
Stellario Fagone
Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen
Günther Groissböck
Tannhäuser
Klaus Florian Vogt
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Christian Gerhaher
Walther von der Vogelweide
Dean Power
Biterolf
Peter Lobert
Heinrich der Schreiber
Ulrich Reß
Reinmar von Zweter
Martin Snell
Elisabeth, Nichte des Landgrafen
Anja Harteros
Venus
Daniela Sindram
Ein junger Hirt
Sarah Gilford
Vier Edelknaben
Solist/en des Tölzer Knabenchors
  • Bayerisches Staatsorchester
  • Chorus of the Bayerische Staatsoper

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A case of man torn apart by dualism? Matter and mind, physical fulfilment and intellectual aspiration, earthly lust and heavenly transfiguration – for millennia, philosophers and religions have claimed the existence of conflicting principles. 

Tannhäuser, a metaphor for an artist or simply a man on a search, refuses to accept this separation and wanders between these antagonistic worlds. His goal is not to reconcile the contradiction, but rather to negate it with his determination to inhabit all worlds. He searches for answers to his yearning for fulfilment in spiritual mysticism, in love based on Christian teaching or in unadulterated sex. Yet, there is always something missing and his hunger is never stilled. For this reason, Tannhäuser never seems to settle. There is always something driving him further on. His sense of revulsion at himself becomes even greater than his rejection of mediocrity, of all those content to compromise (just as the Wartburg minstrels, with their anaemic art, do), rather than exploiting life's full potential. Tannhäuser is motion with no destination in sight. In the same way, Richard Wagner never seemed able to complete this work, no matter how often it was reworked.

 

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Biographies

Simone Young studierte in ihrer Heimatstadt Sydney Klavier und Komposition. Nach Stationen als Chefdirigentin des Bergen Philharmonic Orchestras und als Künstlerische Leiterin sowie Chefdirigentin an der Australian Opera in Sydney und Melbourne war sie von 2005 bis 2015 Intendantin der Staatsoper Hamburg und Generalmusikdirektorin des Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters Hamburg. Darüber hinaus gastierte sie an zahlreichen Opernhäusern, darunter die Wiener Staatsoper, die Opéra national de Paris, das Royal Opera House Covent Garden in London, die Metropolitan Opera in New York und die Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin. Neben ihrer umfangreichen Operntätigkeit dirigierte sie u.a. die Berliner, Wiener und Münchner Philharmoniker sowie das Klangforum Wien. (Stand: 2018)

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