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Tomás Hanus conducts Piotr Beczala, Olga Bezsmertna, Jongmin Park, Elena Zhidkova and Monika Bohinec.
2020-12-11 14:00:36
Adriana Lecouvreur
From the Vienna State Opera, with Angela Gheorghiu, Massimo Giordano, Elena Zhidkova and Roberto Frontali. Evelino Pidò conducts. Performance of February 22, 2014.
2019-08-15 15:53:00
Bayreuth Festival (4) - Tannhäuser, 13 August 2019
Festspielhaus Hermann, Landgrave of Thuringia – Stephen Milling Tannhäuser – Stephen Gould Wolfram von Eschenbach – Markus Eiche Walther von der Vogelweide – Daniel Behle Biterolf – Kay Stiefermann Heinrich der Schreiber – Jorge Rodriguez-Norton Reinmar von Zweter – Wilhelm Schwinghammer Elisabeth – Lise Davidsen Venus – Elena Zhidkova Young Shepherd – Katharina Konradi Four Pages – Cornelia Ragg, Lucila Graham, Annette Gutjahr, Elena Zhidkova Le Gateau Chocolat – Le Gateau Chocolat Oskar – Manni Laudenbach Tobias Kratzer (director) Rainer Sellmaier (designs) Reinhard Traub (lighting) Manuel Braun (video) Konrad Kuhn (dramaturgy) Bayreuth Festival Chorus (chorus master: Eberhard Friedrich) Bayreuth Festival Orchestra Christian Thielemann (conductor) Eight years after I last saw Tannhäuser at Bayreuth, in Sebastian Baumgarten’s truly bizarre production, came the highlight, for me at least, of this year’s Festival: Tobias Kratzer’s new staging, conducted not by Valery Gergiev, as […]
2019-08-15 07:08:52
Surprisingly, Tannhäuser has received only a handful of productions at the Bayreuth Festival and this new production by Tobias Kratzer chalks up its ninth outing
Wagner: Tannhäuser - Bayreuth Festival (Photo Enrico Nawrath) Wagner Tannhäuser; Lise Davidsen, Elena Zhidkova, Stephen Gould, Markus Eiche, dir: Tobias Kratzer, cond: Christian Thielemann; Bayreuth Festival Reviewed by Tony Cooper on 13 August 2019 Star rating: 5.0 (★★★★★) The cognoscenti of the Green Hill adored Tannhäuser and equally adored Norwegian-born soprano, Lise Davidsen, who set the Green Hill alight in the pivotal role of Elisabeth while making her Bayreuth Festival début Wagner: TannhäuserBayreuth Festival (Photo Enrico Nawrath) As in past years, the great and the good turned out for the opening of the Bayreuth Festival with Chancellor Angela Merkel heading up the celeb list accompanied by her husband, Joachim Sauer, who very rarely make a public appearance but Bayreuth’s so special. Indeed, so special, that the opening performance of this year’s new production, Tannhäuser, directed by German director, Tobias Kratzer, a Bayreuth first-timer, was broadcast […]