Tannhäuser

...from musicians clearly as bewitched as himself by the score's echoes of Tristan und Isolde, composed during the same period. The Tannhauser overture, too, had appealing and thoughtful moments. But frustration in this concert was never far...

In this article: Christoph Eschenbach, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Anton Bruckner, Sixth Symphony, Tin, Tristan und Isolde, and Alps

...in Nebbie from the set of three Respighi songs, and beautiful ringing tones and exhilaration in Wagner s Dich, teure Halle from Tannhauser. Voigt s charming ad libs began when she announced Puccini s Vissi d arte from Tosca. Applause broke...

In this article: Deborah Voigt, Tosca, Richard Strauss, and Leonard Bernstein

...into Friday's opening of Lohengrin - his first time to conduct a Wagner opera and HGO's first Wagner production since its 2001 Tannhauser. Summers has conducted more than 30 operas here since his 1999 HGO debut with La Traviata. But...

In this article: Richard Wagner, Lohengrin, Indiana University, Fascism, Parsifal, Don Carlo, and Richard Strauss

...of Tanhauser in the initial use was motivated by aspects of the historical poet knight Tannhauser, the legends about him, and/or the Wagner opera Tannhauser inspired by them. In Blade Runner, the dying replicant Roy Batty , played by...

In this article: Blade Runner, Rutger Hauer, K. W. Jeter, David Peoples, Heavy Gear, Speed of light, and Gunbuster

...Perugia, on October 2, 1264. His successor was Pope Clement IV (1265-1268), who immediately took up the papal side of the arrangement. Tannhauser, a prominent German Minnesanger and poet, was a contemporary of Pope Urban IV - the pope died...

In this article: Pope Urban IV, Pope, Charles of Anjou, House of Hohenstaufen, Teutonic Knights, Venus, and First Council of Lyon

Tannhauser (full title Tannhauser und der Sangerkrieg auf Wartburg / Tannhauser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg) is an opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on the two Germanic legends of Tannhauser and the song...

In this article: Richard Wagner, Elisabeth, Venus, Wartburg, Paris, Heinrich Heine, and Johanna Wagner

...became the first black singer to perform at the famed Bayreuth Festival in Germany; her sexy "schwarze Venus," in Wagner's opera "Tannhauser," gained her international fame. Bumbry went on to sing all the great dramatic mezzo roles in the...

In this article: Grace Bumbry, St. Louis, Kennedy Center Honors, Europe, Venus, Sumner High School, Northwestern University, Boston University, and Lotte Lehmann

...to the works of Richard Wagner. Some objected, but Wagner's grandson called her the perfect Venus. At that night's performance of "Tannhauser," there were 42 curtain calls. Another career highlight came in 1963 when she sang in a solo concert...

In this article: Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen, Robert Mario De Niro Jr., Mel Brooks, Oscar, Taxi Driver, Kennedy Center Honors, and Time Out

...a gala concert with conductor David Zinman and the Aspen Chamber Symphony. The program will consist of operatic arias from Wagner's "Tannhauser" and Beethoven's "Fidelio," and art songs by Richard Strauss, another composer with whom she is...

In this article: Deborah Voigt, Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Metropolitan Opera, New York City, and U.S.

...West to greet the Barbican audience with a beaming Dich, teure Halle, Elisabeth's elated address to the Hall of the Minnesingers in Tannhauser. She was supercharged, but this made for a harsh glint in her soprano and an unsteady vibrato. In...

In this article: Deborah Voigt, Richard Strauss, Leonora, Salome, Barbican, London, John the Baptist, London Symphony Orchestra, Elektra, and Fidelio