TANNHÄUSER by Richard Wagner (Audio + Full Score)

pf: Wolfgang Sawallisch cond/ Bayreuth Festival Orchestra & Choir (live recording, 1962)

NOTE: This is a "mixed" version of the opera. The overture is a splicing of the Dresden and Paris versions. The rest is mainly Dresden.

Year/Date of Composition: 1843-5 (Paris version: 1861)

Landgraf Hermann: Josef Greindl
Tannhäuser: Wolfgang Windgassen
Wolfram: Eberhard Wächter
Walther: Gerhard Stolze
Biterolf: Franz Crass
Heinrich: Georg Paskuda
Reinmar: Gerd Nienstedt
Elisabeth: Anja Silja
Venus: Grace Bumbry
Ein junger Hirt: Else-Margrete Gardelli

SYNOPSIS: http://wagneroperas.com/indextann.html
LIBRETTO: http://www.murashev.com/opera/Tannh%C...

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