First: The obvious (in German):<\/p>\n
Musikalische Leitung: Patrick Lange
\nInszenierung: Uwe Eric Laufenberg
\nB\u00fchne: Rolf Glittenberg
\nKost\u00fcme: Marianne Glittenberg
\nVideo: G\u00e9rard Naziri
\nChor: Albert Horne
\nLicht: Andreas Frank
\nDramaturgie: Regine Palmai<\/p>\n
Hermann, Landgraf von Th\u00fcringen: Young Doo Park
\nTannh\u00e4user: Lance Ryan
\nElisabeth: Sabina Cvilak
\nVenus: Jordanka Milkova
\nWolfram von Eschenbach: Benjamin Russell
\nWalther von der Vogelweide: Aaron Cawley
\nBiterolf: Thomas de Vries
\nHeinrich der Schreiber: Joel Scott
\nReinmar von Zweter: Alexander Knight
\nEin junger Hirt: Stella An
\nNymphen und Grazien: Charlotte Dambach, Viviana Defazio, Laurin Thomas, Rouven Pabst, Nicholas Bruder
\nVier Edelknaben: Eunshil Jung, Hyerim Park, Isolde Ehinger, Daniela R\u00fccker
\nChor & Extrachor des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden, Statisterie des Hessischen Staatstheaters Wiesbaden, Hessisches Staatsorchester Wiesbaden<\/p>\n
First of all: I don’t like Laufenberg, what he did to Parsifal in Bayreuth is a sacrileg. Second: This Tannh\u00e4user isn’t as bad. Third: It need not be Christian Gerhaher to sing a great Wolfram.<\/p>\n
Uwe Eric Laufenberg is a director, who has some good ideas, but always fails in making these ideas “round” and consistent in a staging. So his stagings jump from one idea to the next, always leaving us in a stage of “what the fuck does he now want to tell us?”<\/p>\n
Tannh\u00e4user is all about the conflict between “true love” and “pure sex”. That alone is something, that would need more than just some naked bodies dancing across the stage. Calixto’s approach (as in his staging, which I saw in Bern, and which will soon be re-staged in Leipzig) was to make this “conflict” visible by having the people, who represent one side of the coin (Wolfram: “true love”, Tannh\u00e4user: “pure sex”) really fight each other on stage. Laufenberg just tried to display the torn emotions by using symbols (“naked girls” and “longing gestures”). This “more clinical” approach then conflicts with the nakedness of the dancers, so it leaves us in a stage of “WTF?.<\/p>\n
Lance Ryan also added to this problematic staging. Yes, he’s a powerful actor, but his voice…<\/p>\n
But then there was Benjamin Russell, who made us long for his “Ode an den Abendstern” from the first momement he opened his mouth. Thanks for that!<\/p>\n
Luckily, Patrick Lange also made a great leader of the orchestra, so in total it was an evening worth spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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