Archive 2009

SUN 27. SEP 2009, 4 p.m.

Tannhäuser

Oper Bonn

• Ramaz Chikviladze (Herrmann)
• Scott MacAllister (Tannhäuser)
• Lee Poulis (Wolfram von Eschenbach)
• Ingeborg Greiner (Elisabeth)
• Daniela Denschlag (Venus)
• Tanzensemble sowie Chor und Extrachor des Theater Bonn
• Beethoven Orchester Bonn
• Stefan Blunier (Conductor)
• Klaus Weise (Director)

• Richard Wagner: »Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg« WWV 70 (Eine Produktion des Theater Bonn in Kooperation mit dem Beethovenfest Bonn)

The Struggle of the Two Souls

On the programme for the Beethovenfest Bonn 2009 is Wagner’s great romantic opera about the minstrel Tannhäuser. It is the story of an outsider and his conflict with social conventions. Tannhäuser is torn in two: he lives away from the world but has soon had enough of his pleasurable life with the goddess of love and longs to have his earthly existence back. Thus he comes to the Wartburg, where a singers’ contest with the subject of »true love« becomes quite turbulent, whereupon Tannhäuser is banished to go on a pilgrimage.