Film
The Metropolitan Opera: Tannhäuser
- Director
- Otto Schenk
- Year
- 2015
Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner’s early Romantic opera, starring Johan Botha in the title role of the minnesinger torn between earthly passion and true love. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, whose unswerving devotion redeems Tannhäuser’s soul, and Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, his faithful friend. Michelle DeYoung as the love goddess Venus and Günther Groissböck as Landgraf Hermann complete the cast. Otto Schenk’s classic production was the first of his acclaimed Wagner stagings at the Met.
Top cast
Johan Botha
Tannhäuser
Eva-Maria Westbroek
Elisabeth
Michelle DeYoung
Venus
Peter Mattei
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Günther Groissböck
Landgraf Hermann
Noah Baetge
Walther von der Vogelweide
Adam Klein
Heinrich der Schreiber
Ryan McKinny
Biterolf
Ricardo Lugo
Reinemar von Zweter
Ying Fang
Ein junger Hirte
James Levine
Self - Conductor
Yingxi Zhang
Reinemar von Zweter
Directed by
Otto Schenk, Barbara Willis Sweete
Written by
Richard Wagner
