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BUDAPEST WAGNER DAYS
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classical music, opera, theatre

Wagner: Tannhäuser

  • 27 June 2020, Saturday
  • 6 pm — 9:40 pm
  • two intervals
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Produced by Müpa Budapest
two intervals
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Artistic director and conductor:

Ádám Fischer

Performers:

Hermann
Gábor Bretz
Tannhäuser
Stephen Gould
Wolfram von Eschenbach
Markus Eiche
Walter von der Vogelweide
Tibor Szappanos
Biterolf
Jürgen Linn
Reinmar
Ferenc Cserhalmi
Heinrich
Tivadar Kiss
Elisabeth
Tünde Szabóki
Venus
Sophie Koch
A shepherd
Dominik Jobbágy, Kornél Kristofics

Featuring:

Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hungarian Radio Choir (chorus master: Zoltán Pad)
Honvéd Male Choir and Budapest Studio Choir (choir director: Kálmán Strausz)

Creators:

director
Matthias Oldag
set design, costumes
Thomas Gruber
revival director
Sylvie Gábor
  • Wagner: Tannhäuser - an opera in three acts (German-language performance, with projected subtitles in Hungarian and in English)

We would like, even during this extraordinary situation, for the Müpa Budapest audience to still be able to encounter the world's most outstanding and thrilling artists each evening - this time in their own homes. It is precisely for this reason that we have decided to unlock our media library for everyone over the weeks to come and - each night at the familiar times - open Müpa Budapest's virtual concert hall and auditoriums by providing access to a single unforgettable performance from past years.

The performance will be broadcasted on our website, Facebook-page and YouTube channel.

The chief sustaining element of Wagner's operas is tension. This is the electric field created in each of his works, attracting those who are receptive to it like a magnet. Tension - clashing with principles, as high-level art tends to do... - was already present in the early 'German Romantic operas”, including Tannhäuser.

It never hurts to repeat the truism that, in his stories taking place in the medieval period or in some undefined mythical age, Wagner was never actually speaking about the people of past centuries, or of the gods, giants and dwarfs of legend. Instead, he was reflecting, and addressing, his own era. The chivalric tale of Tannhäuser - featuring a singing contest at Wartburg Castle, Venus's cavern and a pilgrimage to Rome - was all about the beliefs and morals of the rapidly evolving bourgeois era of the 19th century. The opera addresses the battle between the conflicting ideas of extreme sensuality and extreme asceticism. In other words, Tannhäuser is about the 19th century, which spawned, along with a triumphant bourgeoisie busy building the capitalist system, a great deal of hypocrisy. Wagner himself is extreme, contrasting the "cesspool of pleasure” with "holy purification” - for him there exists no synthesis or middle ground. Although the productivity-minded thinking of the bourgeoisie - as we see it today - always aimed for a solid balance, Wagner was an artist: his wish was not to praise this new commercial class, but to denounce it.
Matthias Oldag's acclaimed production, on the other hand, strikes a constructive balance between ideas about stage directing sprung from both modernist and traditional aesthetics, enabling it to address both those seeking novelty and others more comfortable with tradition. Gábor Bretz has been a celebrated soloist at La Scala in Milan, the Sydney Opera House and the Salzburg Festival. The favourite role of Stephen Gould is Tannhäuser, while Markus Eiche has sung Wolfram from Tannhäuser, Donner from Das Rheingold and Gunther from Götterdämmerung at the Bayreuth Festival. The German Jürgen Linn lists all the major Wagnerian baritone roles on his repertoire. Tünde Szabóki, a perennial performer at the Budapest Wagner Days, is just as at home on the stages of Austria and Germany. Meanwhile, Sophie Koch began her career in Mozartian and Richard Strauss roles, expanding her repertoire with major Wagnerian heroines.
This recording was made at a concert held at Müpa Budapest on 14 June 2018.


Presented by: Müpa Budapest

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