It’s the Minnesinger not the song
Tannhäuser pales beside the other great Wagnerian operas in the degree to which it has innovated the Regisseur’s vocabulary for set design and dramaturgy.
47 pieces since 2008 — in 12 roles, at 9 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
2 pieces as Bayreuth Festival — stats above show all coverage for Grace Bumbry.
View allTannhäuser pales beside the other great Wagnerian operas in the degree to which it has innovated the Regisseur’s vocabulary for set design and dramaturgy.
Live recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch conducting Parsifal seem to proliferate like stairways in M.C. Escher prints.
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