Wagner: Tannhäuser

Daniel Barenboim conducts his excellent forces as if he really does believe in the work, and the result…is that, though the work may not completely convince, there is far too much powerful music... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Nov 2015
Catalogue No: BAC122
Label: Bel Air Classiques

Wagner: Tannhäuser

Dresden version including reference to Bachanals (Act 1, Scene 1) in the Paris version
Peter Seiffert (Tannhäuser), Marina Prudenskaya (Venus), Ann Petersen (Elisabeth), Peter Mattei (Wolfram von Eschenbach), René Pape (Hermann, Landgraf von Thüringen), Peter Sonn (Walther von der Vogelweide), Tobias Schabel (Biterolf), Jürgen Sacher (Heinrich der Schreiber), Jan Martiník (Reinmar von Zweter) & Sónia Grané (Ein Hirtenknabe)
Staatskapelle Berlin
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Stage direction & choreography: Sasha Waltz

Costume design: Bernd Skodzig

Set design: Pia Maier Schriever, Sasha Waltz

Lighting design: David Finn

A brand new production of ‘Tannhäuser’ from the Staatsoper Berlin, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has brought to the stage this Romantic Wagner opera with a star cast of some of today's best Wagnerian singers: Peter Seiffert in the title role, Réne Pape as Landgraf and Peter Mattei as Wolfram, Ann Petersen sings Elisabeth and Marina Prudenskaya is Venus.

HD recording: Staatsoper im Schiller Theater, Berlin – 04/2014

DVD Running time: 192 min.

Booklet: FR / ANGL / ALL, Subtitles: FR / ANGL / ALL

16/9, NTSC, Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.1

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March 2016

Daniel Barenboim conducts his excellent forces as if he really does believe in the work, and the result…is that, though the work may not completely convince, there is far too much powerful music and drama in it for it to be relegated to rarity-status…Peter Seiffert, our anti-hero, has vast experience of the role…all the other singers are excellent, with Peter Mattei a paragon of intensity, musicality and warmth

January 2016

Musically, here is work from the conductor and orchestra on the level of their 2013 London Proms Ring...A well-chosen cast make much of the sympathetic acoustic of the Staatsoper's temporary Schiller Theatre home, with the ladies well contrasted...Mattei's finely enunciated Wolfram and Peter Seiffert encompassing the title-role's difficulties with a constant eye on their dramatic import.

March 2016

The individual vocal performances also prove extremely worthwhile. With the singer aged 50 at the time of the recording, Peter Seiffert’s Heldentenor is no longer a consistently steady instrument, yet its power and security remain undiminished...Ann Petersen’s blonde good looks give her an almost typecast appearance as Elisabeth, and though her tone is initially less than ideally focused, she settles down into a commanding, clean-edged account...Pride of place, though, must go to Daniel Barenboim’s expert conducting and to the superb playing he draws from the Berlin Staatskapelle alongside the pristine choral singing of the Berlin Staatsopernchor.

Opera Now January 2016

Tannhäuser is definitely worth watching in choreographer Sasha Waltz’s production from Berlin. She doesn’t force the work into a Konzept, but allows it to unfold quite simply within her own pared-down aesthetic, balancing movement and stasis to great effect … Daniel Barenboim provides spacious and lucid conducting … Marina Prudenskaya is a fabulous Venus, with her sinuous and spicy mezzo. Peter Mattei strikes gold as Wolfram: I thought Christian Gerhaher owned this role, but Mattei is equally superb, oozing class.

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