GREAT PERFORMANCES: TANNHAUSER, PT. 1 (TV)

Summary

Part one of Wagner's "Tannhauser," recorded live at the 1978 Bayreuth Festival and sung in German, with English subtitles. Wolfgang Wagner welcomes the television audience to Bayreuth. The overture begins. Highlights of Act I include Venus's "Geliebter, Komm." (Presented under the umbrella of "Great Performances.") Continues with T83:0491.

Details

NETWORK: PBS
DATE: June 4, 1980 8:00 PM
RUNNING TIME: 1:00:00
COLOR/B&W: Color
CATALOG ID: T83:0490
GENRE: Music
SUBJECT HEADING: Exxon Collection; Operas
SERIES RUN: PBS - TV, 1980
COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

Jac Venza … Executive Producer, For "Great Performances"
David Griffiths … Producer, For "Great Performances"
Martin Bookspan … Host, For "Great Performances"
Horant H. Hohlfeld … Executive Producer, For "Tannhauser"
Wolfgang Wagner … Music (Misc. Credits), Artistic Supervisor, For "Tannhauser"
Gotz Friedrich … Director, Staged and directed by
Richard Wagner … Composer, Librettist
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra … Symphony Orchestra
Bayreuth Festival Chorus … Choir/Chorus
Colin Davis … Conductor
John Neumeier … Choreographer, Director, Ballet choreographed and directed by
Spas Wenkoff … Singer, Cast, Tannhauser
Hans Sotin … Singer, Cast, Hermann the Landgrave
Gwyneth Jones … Singer, Cast¥ , Elisabeth and Venus
Bernd Weikl … Singer, Cast, Wolfram
Robert Schunk … Singer, Cast
Franz Mazura … Singer, Cast, with others

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