Tannhauser News

 
Financial Times
Tannhäuser/Così fan tutte, Lisbon
Financial Times
There, last weekend, a top-drawer cast sang Wagner's Tannhäuser in two concert performances. When Johan Botha sings, listening ceases to be an act of free will. The voice draws you in, and you are carried on the long, emotional phrases.


 
The Met's 'Götterdämmerung' – Live in HD, in San Francisco theaters, 2/11
Examiner.com
Götterdämmerung will be the seventh Wagner opera in her Met repertory, which also includes "Brünnhilde" in Siegfried; both "Brünnhilde" and "Sieglinde" in Die Walküre; "Isolde" in Tristan und Isolde; "Elsa" in Lohengrin; "Elisabeth" in Tannhäuser; ...

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Lyric puts its stamp on 'The King and I'
Richmond Times Dispatch
The Hampton Roads-based Lyric Opera wasn't about to turn "The King and I" into a gut-bursting "Tannhauser" in the sumptuous production that opened Friday night at the Landmark Theater on the second leg of the three-city, six-performance tour.


 
Writer under the veil of fiction
The Australian
Wagner, he says, got him young -- he first heard the overture to Tannhauser, at age 11, at one of his prep school's music-appreciation sessions -- and in early adulthood the composer enthralled him to a "rather crazy degree".


 
Prague Post
Music Preview: The China Philharmonic
Prague Post
The program for the orchestra's Prague concert features three very different pieces of music: the stately overture from Wagner's opera Tannhauser, Astor Piazzolla's Las Cuatro Estaciones Portenas and a piece from the Chinese opera Gui Fei Zui Jiu, ...

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New York Times
Wagner's 'Rienzi' From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall
New York Times
There are hints of “Tannhäuser,” “Lohengrin” and more. Mr. Storey, who had the gravity and vocal heft for the daunting title role, sang with stamina and intelligence. Sometimes his sound was grainy, and his sustained tones wobbled.

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Ruth Eldredge
Pekin Daily Times
She was preceded in death by her first husband, Virgil Haas; and a sister, Edith Tannhauser. She enjoyed fishing, bowling and dancing the Jitterbug. No services are planned at this time. Brainard Funeral Home in Wausau is in charge of arrangements.