Anew production of Tannhäuser, which was premiered on 26 July 2019 and presented the Bayreuth debut of conductor Valery Gergiev, as well as the house debut of young soprano star Lise Davidsen. Tobias Kratzer’s staging presented Tannhäuser as a wildly contemporary parable of art and freedom which was praised as “novel” and “wrenching” (New York Times) and received exceptional press acclaim. hey were joined by mezzo soprano Elena Zhidkova’s Venus (“scene stealing”, according to Opera Today), baritone Markus Eiche’s Wolfram and Stephen Milling’s Landgraf.
Stephen Milling
as Landgraf Hermann
Stephen Gould
as Tannhäuser
Markus Eiche
as Wolfram von Eschenbach
Daniel Behle
as Walther von der Vogelweide
Kay Stiefermann
as Biterolf
Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
as Heinrich der Schreiber
Wilhelm Schwinghammer
as Reinmar von Zweter
Lise Davidsen
as Elisabeth
