Richard WagnerTannhäuserTannhäuser

Günther Groissböck Peter SeiffertMarkus EichePetra Maria SchnitzerBéatrice Uria-Monzon

Sebastian Weigle

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Conductor SebastianWeigle Orchestra OrquestraSimfònica delGranTeatredelLiceu Chorus CordelGranTeatredelLiceu Chorus Master JoséLuisBasso Hermann GüntherGroissböck Tannhäuser PeterSeiffert Wolfram von Eschenbach MarkusEiche Walther von der Vogelweide VicenteOmbuena Biterolf LauriVasar Heinrich der Schreiber FranciscoVas Reinmar von Zweter JohannTilliElisabeth, the Landgrave’s niece PetraMariaSchnitzer Venus BéatriceUria-Monzon a young shepherd ElianaBayón Four noble pages MariaSuch M.ÀngelsPadró YordankaLeón MiglenaSavova

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Length 201'

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T  his exciting and compelling modern-day adaptation of Richard Wagner’s fable of love and redemption features one of the great Wagner singers of our time in the lead

role, Peter Seiffert. as a nimble, youthful-voiced Tannhäuser, he plays alongside Petra Maria Schnitzer as Elisabeth. as the goddess of love, Elisabeth’s counterpart Venus is portrayed by the stunning Béatrice Uria-Monzon. Displaying particular vigor and dynamism is Günther Groissböck as Hermann, here in the guise of an art dealer. Sebastian Weigle, the Liceu’s principal conductor, gives a performance that is “full of vitality and visibly inspired”, as the Spanish daily ABC wrote.

noted Canadian director Robert Carsen has transported the work to our time and incorporates the whole theater in his production: he turns the Wartburg into a chic big-city art gallery, the work’s “Minnesänger” into painters and and lets the gallery’s opening-night guests stroll down the Liceu’s central aisle. The work’s message of salvation takes on a new edge: it is now about artistic glory and expressing the inexpressible. at the end, Tannhäuser’s controversial, revolutionary “portrait” of love is about to be hung in Hermann’s gallery along with other paintings that had once faced public and critical censure in their time.

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