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Our version of Tannhäuser was a mixture of its Paris and Dresden versions; we opened the opera with Parisian Venusberg. My approach to the staging was built around a central question: the conditions that make love and loving possible in a cultural context, where the idea and role of a woman is violentely divided into that of a saint or a whore. The opera was premiered at the Tampere Opera on March the 1:st, 2012.
Composer: Richard Wagner
Set and costumes: Kimmo Viskari
Light Design: Jussi Kamunen
Musical Direction: Hannu Lintu
Tannhäuser: Richard Decker
Wolfram von Eschenbach: Gabriel Suovanen
Venus: Johanna Rusanen-Kartano
Elisabeth: Elisabeth Strid
Hermann: Mika Kares
Walther von der Vogelweide: Dan Karlström
Biterolf: Ville Rusanen
Heinrich der Schreiber: Petri Bäckström
Reinmar von Zweter: Petri Lindroos
The Shepherd: Kalle Pääkkönen, Aapo Savisaari
The Pages: Mikaela Commondt, Piia Eriksson-Rossi, Sanna Vuorela, Suvi Väyrynen
Dancers: Sanna-Mari Karinki, Anna-Maria Paadar, Lisa Salo
Tampere Opera Choir
Tampere Philharmony
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