David Alden's production of Wagner's grand romantic opera was recorded at the National Theatre in Munich, with Bayerische Staatsoper, in September 1994. Shot over three days by leading opera director Brian Large, this recording benefits from the ideal technical conditions made possible by a closed session. Alden, one of the most iconoclastic interpreters of classical opera, stirs up the visionary, erotic, and archetypal elements in Wagner's work. The cold, forbidding aspect of the stylized and predominantly monochrome sets and costumes by Roni Toren and Buki Shiff manifests the strait-jacket of tradition from which Tannhäuser seeks to free himself in this powerful opera.
as Tannhäuser
as Venus
as Wolfram von Eschenbach
as Elisabeth
as Hermann
as Walther von der Vogelweide
as Biterolf
as Heinrich der Schreiber
as Reinmar von Zweter
as Hirt
as Self - Conductor
as Self - Orchestra
as Self - Ballet
as Self - Chorus
