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This is what the Wartburg singing community asks for, and this is what Tannhäuser also seeks: he finds almost endless lust with the goddess of love Venus, and hopes to attain bliss with the "pure" Elisabeth. In his vacillation between satisfaction and renunciation, between guilt and protest, in being torn between fulfillment and exaltation, he corresponds entirely to the grammar of the Romantic age - and still speaks directly to us today.
After Rienzi and The Flying Dutchman,Tannhäuser represents the next major step in Richard Wagner's development. What's more, much already points to later works: "The pilgrimage and Rome music hints at his last opera, Parsifal, as far as the religious aspect is concerned. And the Venus music - even in the first, Dresden version - refers to Tristan und Isolde," explains premiere conductor Philippe Jordan.Following new productions of Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Lohengrin in the past seasons, Tannhäuser is now on the Vienna State Opera's premiere schedule. In 1857, the Viennese were first introduced to a complete opera by Wagner with this work - not at the Court Opera, but in the large Thalia Theater, which seated 4,000 people. Just two years later, Tannhäuser was also performed at Vienna's leading opera house and even the dreaded critics' pope Eduard Hanslick was impressed by the work. This time, a mixture of the earlier Dresden version and the later Paris version of the opera will be performed at the Haus am Ring.(Source: wiener-staatsoper.at)
