Hints and tips:
...Or to believe in the crowd’s shock at Tannhäuser’s debauchery? Albery and his designers Michael Levine and Jon Morrell have generated nonsense....
...That may have been English National Opera’s reasoning when it invited Fabulous Beast Dance Theatre’s director, Michael Keegan-Dolan, to stage Handel’s opera about Caesar’s conquest of Egypt....
...Michael Nagy’s Wolfram and Camilla Nylund’s Elisabeth were equally charmless, and Stephanie Friede’s Venus looked and sounded a caricature....
...But Albery and his designers, Michael Levine and Jon Morrell, fail to find an adequate metaphor for the flip side of Wagner’s moral coin....
...Michael Dingaan, a South African conductor who has experience overseas, including work in Switzerland and Norway, agrees....
...The crux of his argument is that Wagner’s creative and personal life thrived on tension between the sensual and spiritual – initially represented on stage by Venus and Elisabeth (Tannhäuser) and ultimately...
...Kirsten Harms’s new Tannhäuser for Deutsche Oper borrows liberally from images of medieval Christianity (design: Bernd Damovsky)....
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