Tannhauser: Wagner: National Theatre of Munich (1994)

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Director David Alden reinvents composer Richard Wagner's most passionate opera, donning singers in a mix of modern and medieval clothes -- and sometimes nothing at all. This staging at the National Theatre in Munich, Germany, finds the poet Tannhäuser (René Kollo) running from the arms of… More Director David Alden reinvents composer Richard Wagner's most passionate opera, donning singers in a mix of modern and medieval clothes -- and sometimes nothing at all. This staging at the National Theatre in Munich, Germany, finds the poet Tannhäuser (René Kollo) running from the arms of Venus (Waltraud Meier), vowing to repent his sinful ways. But mortal pleasures delay his salvation when he's reunited with a former flame (Nadine Secunde).