Richard Wagner
16) Tannhäuser
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Deutsch
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Richard Wagner's Tannhauser, a tale of the struggle between spiritual and profane love, and of redemption through love, is given a radical visual update in Sebastian Baumgarten's controversial Bayreuth production. Joep van Lieshout's giant installation "The Technocrat" dominates the stage, its industrial interior suggesting that Tannhauser is in fact one big experiment. Torsten Kerl interprets the title role, with Camilla Nylund in the role of Elisabeth....
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English
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All 64 of the watercolor illustrations and selected black-and-white vignettes and tailpieces reproduced from Siegfried & the Twilight of the Gods (1911) and The Rhinegold & the Valkyrie (1912), both co-published by William Heinemann, London, and Doubleday, Page & Co., New York.
