1/23/16 – TANNHAUSER @ 1:00PM

Metropolitan Opera

Tannhauser by Richard Wagner
Libretto by Richard Wagner

Approximate running time: 4 hrs 20 mins

James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of his recent triumph in Parsifal, Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus

Sung in: GERMAN