Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg - Schedule, Program & Tickets

Tannhäuser longs to return from the kingdom of Venus to his earthly life. Only with the call of the Virgin Mary he manages to escape the goddess. Hermann of Thuringia and his chivalrous hunting party welcome the long-lost. The prospect of meeting her beloved Elisabeth moves him to return home. In a singer's contest at the Wartburg, the essence of love is to be explored. The invited singers sing about the purity of feeling, but Tannhäuser extols the passion of Venus. The open confession of pleasure brings society into turmoil; They want to use weapons against Tannhäuser, but Elizabeth, although injured herself, protects his life. The Landgrave imposes a penalty on Tannhäuser to Rome. The pilgrims, however, return without Tannhäuser; only he alone has not achieved papal forgiveness. He threatens eternal damnation, which he hopes to escape by returning to Venus. The invocation of Elisabeth's name makes him come to his senses again - in the face of her death finds his torn soul now salvation.

The theater as a dream location: Starting from the consideration that Venus and Elisabeth represent only two possibilities that a person is able to unite in itself, Wagner's opera is the starting point for a stage play with the facets and possibilities in the interpersonal coexistence. Not only the medieval moral code, to which the staff of the play is superficially subject, is thereby one of the determining levels, but also the changes of the perspective, which are possible through the opposing dispositional manifestations in one person. It is no longer the torn-up mind that is at the center of attention, but much more so than the generally prevailing turmoil: Venus / Elisabeth. TANNHÄUSER from the point of view of a woman who is much more than just a whore or a saint. More than this "either-or" we are interested in tracing the art of love in this work.

"Since Ludwig der Milde, landgrave of Thuringia, had died on a crusade in the East, he left no children, and the land fell to his brother Hermann. At its times, minnesang flourished in German lands, and was practiced and loved by princes and nobles, and Prince Hermann gathered many singers to his shining court at the Wartburg. A time after him, a minnesinger lived in the Franconia, led like most of his singing companions a wandering life. Then, as he passed by the mountain of hearing souls, he had stopped the apparition of a marvelous image of a woman; none other than Frau Venus herself had advised him to follow her into the mountain, and although the faithful Eckart warned him, too, the knight had warned but could not resist, and had gone in, and had let themselves be tricked by Mrs. Venus, and spent a whole year in the mountains. Many old songs sing and say, how regret has come over the Tannhauser, that he has become calm and absorbed in himself, and has again sought out of the mountain. When he said this, Madame Venus reminded him of his oath, which he swore to her, but Tannhäuser denied it to her beautiful face. Then she offered to give him another playmate instead of her, but he said that if he did such a thing, he would forever burn in the glow of hell for such polygyny. Then Mrs. Venus laughed brightly and asked him what he said about hell. Did he ever feel this with her? Whether her red mouth at all hours laughed at him kindly? So the quarrel went on for a while, until Tannhauser, in his ingratitude for all the love and good that Frau Venus had done to him, scolded her a devil. That finally upset Ms. Venus and threatened to pay him. Then the Tannhauser shouted to the Virgin Mary to help him with the woman, and then Madame Venus spoke with pride: Now he could say he should only take his leave of the old man - he would still praise her praise. Now the Tannhauser retired from Venusberg and turned to Rome to see Pope Urban, who complained and confessed his sins and confessed that he had been with a woman named Venus for a year. The Pope held in his hand the high staff with the Roman double cross and spoke to the penitent singer: As little as the thin rod greenens here, you, who were at the devil's pit, come to God's pit! In vain he begged Tannhauser to pay him a year's repentance, then, like that of eternal Rome, he was overcome with sorrow and grief, and bitterly lamented that the Pope's harsh word divorced him forever from Mary, the heavenly bosom, that God would not accept him , and cursed again to Mrs. Venus in the Hörselberg. She stood there and laughed brightly, mocking him in the opposite devilish fashion: "Be welcome, Tannhäuser, my dear sir, I h

Subject to change.