It is about nothing less than love. This is what the Wartburg singing community asks for, and this is what Tannhäuser also seeks: he finds almost endless lust with the goddess of love Venus, and hopes to attain bliss with the "pure" Elisabeth. In his vacillation between satisfaction and renunciation, between guilt and protest, in being torn between fulfillment and exaltation, he corresponds entirely to the grammar of the Romantic age - and still speaks directly to us today.
as Tannhäuser
as Elisabeth
as Venus
as Wolfram von Eschenbach
as Landgrave Hermann
as Walther von der Vogelweide
as Young Shepherd
as Biterolf
as Heinrich der Schreiber
as Reinmar von Zweter
