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.
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René Kollo
Tannhäuser
Waltraud Meier
Venus
Bernd Weikl
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Nadine Secunde
Elisabeth
Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Hermann
Claes-Håkan Ahnsjö
Walther von der Vogelweide
Hans Günter Nöcker
Biterolf
James Anderson
Heinrich der Schreiber
Gerhard Auer
Reinmar von Zweter
Johannes Pohl
Hirt
Zubin Mehta
Self - Conductor
Bayerisches Staatsorchester
Self - Orchestra
Ballett der Bayerischen Staatsoper
Self - Ballet
Tölzer Knabenchor
Self - Chorus
