Word: tannhã
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...though not enough to hide the fact that the violins were out of tune. Despite the unbalanced opening, the swashbuckling theme was well articulated by the brass section for a clean end. Like his “Lohengrin,” Wagner’s “Tannh??user” is also a story about love. The muted sound of the overture’s opening in the clarinet melody evoked a prayer-like feeling. However, the performance failed to build on this. At times, Sakir was able to lift the brass line above the lush strokes...
...doubt, is that neither Tristan und Isolde nor the Ring cycle makes much sense without Heldensoprano Birgit Nilsson, who has been away from the U.S. for several seasons and gives no sign of returning. Last week the Met considerably shored up its Wagnerian wing with a new production of Tannh??user that was spectacular to behold, breathtaking (with one major exception) to hear and immensely satisfying in the way it made dramatic sense of the churchiness that infuses the work. The performance also emphatically implied that Music Director James Levine, 34, is fast becoming a skilled Wagnerian conductor...
This was the first Tannh??user Levine had ever led and only his second Wagner opera (the other being the Met's Lohengrin last year). The current season is only his second as music director, and the verdict about his abilities as a collector and builder of talent is not yet in. But on the podium this young man is clearly an unceasing source of adrenaline for his singers and players. The sensuous darting about of the violins in the Act I bacchanal was all gossamer. The onstage trumpets during the entry march of the minnesingers in Act II were...
Based on Wagner's own adaptation of medieval German legends, Tannh??user opens in the magical mountain home of Venus, where one of the great orgies in opera is taking place. One avid participant is the minstrel Tannh??user, who is found snuggled up to Venus herself. Tannh??user, of course, spends the rest of the evening trying to atone for his sins. Of the two versions of the opera that exist today, Levine has wisely chosen the revision Wagner made for the Paris premiere in 1861. By that time Wagner had written Tristan and was a much more sophisticated...
...placed it against handsome, mood-filled back drops. The inside of Venus' home, for example, is a steadily shifting vision of pools, waterfalls, trysting places and writhing bodies. Much of its look is achieved with rear projections on a curved, cyclorama-type screen. The dissolution of Venusberg as Tannh??user is expelled is both swift and wizardry...