Posted August 27, 2021

“Tannhäuser” – photo by Joan Lam

The Tannhäuser for the 2021 Bayreuth Festival is a reprise of the 2019 production with the following cast:

Conductor – Axel Kober
Director – Tobias Kratzer

Landgraf Hermann – Günther Groissböck
Tannhäuser – Stephen Gould
Wolfram von Eschenbach – Markus Eiche
Elisabeth, Nichte des Landgrafen – Lise Davidsen
Venus – Ekaterina Gubanova

2019 REVIEWS and VIDEO:

A fresh and cheeky staging in tune with Bayreuth’s newly relaxed vibe.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tannhaeuser-review-a-fresh-and-cheek…​

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A New ‘Tannhäuser’ Brings Burger King to Bayreuth.

With a drag queen and lowbrow pop culture, a rambunctious production transports Wagner’s opera to the present.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/26/arts/music/tannhauser-bayreuth-revie…

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Video:
https://www.operaonvideo.com/tannhauser-bayreuth-2019-gould-davidsen-mi…

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TOBIAS KRATZER is a German stage director, especially of opera, who has worked internationally after winning a competition in Graz with two entries in 2008. He has staged works by Verdi and Wagner, but also contemporary music. He directed Wagner’s Tannhäuser for the 2019 Bayreuth Festival. Wikipedia