Organization

Singer

Bass

Guido Jentjens

Hermann

Tenor

Norbert Ernst

Tannhäuser

Baritone

Simon Stricker

Wolfram of Eschenbach

Sangmin Jeon

Walther of the Vogelweide

Bass-baritone

Sebastian Campione

Biterolf

Mark Bowman-Hester

Heinrich the scribe

Timothy Edlin

Reinmar of Zweter

Mezzo-soprano

Allison Cook

Venus

Soprano

Julie Adams

Elizabeth

Stage director

Nuran David Çalis

Conductor

Patrick Hahn

Costume designer

Anna Sünkel

Set designer

Anne Ehrlich

Dramaturge

Marc von Reth

John Heuzenroeder

Andreas Beinhauer

Patrick Vogel

Choreographer

Matteo Marziano Graziano

Chorus master

Ulrich Zippelius

Video designer

Michael Berner

Wuppertaler Bühnen

Others

Extras of the Wuppertaler Bühnen

Opernchor der Wuppertaler Bühnen

Orchestra

Sinfonieorchester Wuppertal

German

Wuppertal

Germany

Opernhaus

Tannhäuser Wagner,Richard

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Approved

Oper Wuppertal

Under the guise of a singers' war at the Wartburg, Richard Wagner's opera ›Tannhäuser‹ tells of the failed attempt to reintegrate a rebellious outsider into society.
The title hero leaves his social circle twice. He does not feel at home in the sexually charged environment of Venus. And the moral barriers of his own scene make a successful return to this and to Elisabeth impossible. All that remains for him is to flee into religion. Two societies exist side by side, but only touch each other like parallel straight lines in infinity. Nuran David Çalış's political reading of the Tannhauser material transplanted the courtly society of the Wartburg into an environment for which Cologne's Keupstrasse could have been the model. Promising lights are reflected like very faded evening stars on the asphalt. The dream of a different, shared life is shattered and in the end the main characters are left alone.

English

Tannhäuser by Wagner, Richard, From (2022/2022), Directed by Nuran David Çalis,, Conductor Patrick Hahn, Oper Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

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