Organization

Singer

Tenor

Ian Storey

Tannhäuser

Richard Decker

Conductor

Stefan Anton Reck

Stage director

Guy Montavon

Costume designer

Amélie Haas

Set designer

Edoardo Sanchi

Bass-baritone

Valdis Jansons

Biterolf

Mezzo-soprano

Elena Lo Forte

Venus

Patrizia Orciani

Baritone

Martin Gantner

Wolfram of Eschenbach

I Teatri di Reggio Emilia

Orchestra

Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna

Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Chorus master

Lorenzo Fratini

Bass

Enzo Capuano

Hermann

Soprano

Miranda Keys

Elizabeth

Orla Boylan

Others

Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna

Gabriele Mangione

Walther of the Vogelweide

Armaz Darashvili

Heinrich the scribe

Christian Faravelli

Reinmar of Zweter

Guanqun Yu

A young shepherd

Rosa Guarracino

First noble page

Fanny Fogel

Second noble page

Nadia Pirazzini

Third noble page

Contralto

Lucia Michelazzo

Fourth noble page

German

Reggio Emilia

Italy

Teatro Municipale Valli

Tannhäuser Wagner, Richard

Public

Oliver Embourne

Italian

Approved

once and for all Tannhäuser , perhaps his most beloved artistic creature, certainly one of those that engaged him most. The three versions indicated above are in fact those conventionally cataloged as such only because they have the greatest number of variants compared to the previous version, but a precise reconstruction of the materials has made it possible to trace the existence of at least four further versions (dated 1845, '47, '51 and '75), so that the attempt to establish which version of the work can be considered "definitive" is doomed to certain failure. The libretto, written by Wagner in Paris between 1841 and 1942, consists of the grafting on each other of two medieval legends, not without the addition by the author of original characters and situations. One dates back to a 13th century historical tale about the Minnesänger battle (love singers) at the Wartburg (the home of the Landgrave of Thuringia, at whose court the poetic challenges between the singers were held in the 12th and 13th centuries, including the "characters" of the Wagnerian work Wolfram von Eschenbach and Walther von der Vogelweide), whom Wagner knew "second-hand" through the collection The faithful of San Serapione by Hoffmann and the collection of Germanic sagas by the Brothers Grimm; the other is a well-known popular legend of the fourteenth century, that of Venus and Tannhäuser, already taken up by Tieck in a story, by Arnim and Brentano in a poem from the collection of popular poetic texts Des Knaben Wunderhorn , by Heine in a lyric and by Brothers Grimm in a fairy tale.

English

Tannhäuser by Wagner, Richard, From (2011/2011), Directed by Guy Montavon,, Conductor Stefan Anton Reck, Teatro Municipale Valli, Reggio Emilia, Italy

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