Wagner: Tannhauser - finale (Staatsoper Berlin, 2014)

[@rsg3265]

It's the best opera ever written; no doubt.

[@manfredhoffmann6201]

Dieses Werk ist Göttlich!!!! Danke R. Wagner.❤❤❤

[@jmballestra7607]

Un final très WAGNERIEN !!!! Donc sublime !!!!!!

[@sourjyabanerjee9310]

That final plagal cadence 😭

[@eddihaskell]

Very effective staging. To make a long story short, Tannhauser has cheated on his fiancee Elisabeth by "fooling around" with the Goddess Venus in the opening of the opera. He decides to go to Rome to ask for forgiveness from the Pope. Elisabeth then prays that she dies in her sleep so she can ask God for Tannhauser's forgiveness, which happens. The Pope only agrees to forgive Tannhauser if the dead staff that he is given "sprouts leaves and comes alive" or something like that. At the end of the Opera, Tannhauser arrives home, only to find a dead Elisabeth and a sprouting staff. The miracle has occurred! Very Wagnerian.

[@biancacastafiore8760]

not exactly, there’s much more to the story than that

[@orielkolnai6548]

@@biancacastafiore8760 Well, yes; a lot more. However the staging here, whilst a little static, hints much more effectively at the 'drama's' main message than any production I have seen. This is not about Christian redemption, but 'life force' - 'the force which throught the green fuse drives the flower'. Ferocious paganism. Sprinkling greenery on the corpses reinforces the 'green stick' theme . Christianity is over; let the Wicker Man in.

[@biancacastafiore8760]

@@orielkolnai6548 I see he has edited his original post. But he has got it wrong. He does not return home to find a sprouting staff!

[@michaelorme7268]

@@biancacastafiore8760 ' As dawn breaks, another group of pilgrims arrives, telling of a miracle: the Pope’s staff, which they bear with them, has blossomed.' (Met Opera Summary) Why are the sex scenes so explicit? Why is the staff's symbol of worldy suffering denied, replacing it with natural desire? ('The force that through the green fuse drives the flower.') Baudelaire read the opera as expressing 'frenzied love....elevated to the level of a counter-religion'. In today's language we may call 'Tannhauser' transgressive, incorporating 'the delights of crime' within the plan of salvation. This salvation, I suggest, is hardly Christian. It reads more like sexology.

[@michaelorme7268]

@daniele.3361 And a cross is just a cross? This is a story of religious symbolism and rebirth. Wagner, (the Fuhrer's favourite composer) never dealt in 'just'.

[@krischan67]

This is art!

[@blekberg]

you are damn right

[@husseinmansour8761]

Chills chills chillssss

[@douglassmith8334]

Truly majestic. Can someone explain the figure with 'branches' growing from him? Was this reference again to the Pope's staff growing once more or another meaning?

[@CountofBeretania]

3:24 🎶Weturn my wuv…🎶 Hey, what can I say Looney Toons made me a fan of opera.

[@adfontesaquarum]

La mise en scène est infâme, le vestiaire est indigent, le chœur crie avec un phrasé plat, les femmes sont même pas justes dans l’aigu. Seul l’orchestre s’en sort.

[@davidbastardo4154]

At least there are nuns in the choir, which somehow suggests that the story IS CHRISTIAN XD

[@stewartmair3995]

Das sagen Sie als Fransozer? Sie haben keine Recht eine deutsche Aufführung zu kritisieren

[@adfontesaquarum]

@@stewartmair3995 Nein. Ich sage das als Argentiner. Und ja, wir Argentinier haben alle Rechte um eine Deutsche Auffürung zu kritisieren. Erich Kleiber, Fritz Busch, Theodor Fuchs und viele andere Deutsche Dirigenten haben uns unterrichtet, vie Deutsche Musik interpretiert werden soll.

[@nightwish1000]

@@stewartmair3995 Haha und du Stewart, du willst als Nichtdeutscher einem Franzosen, der eigentlich Argentinier ist, verbieten eine deutsche Aufführung zu kritisieren!? Dann verbiete ich dir als Deutscher hiermit solche Anmaßung haha

[@asschultze4182]

​@@stewartmair3995 Doch!

[@janethu9169]

Wagner is a German composer.

[@michsturge671]

Thanks for the tip.

[@stewartmair3995]

Und zwar Leipziger

[@vikingsong2068]

We know.

[@nacionalistaenlucha]

Jajaja el coro falleció con ellos!

[@VaultWeasel]

I dunno whats going on, but i am sad 😢

[@douglassmith8334]

That's tragedy for you ....:(

[@KarstenBohn-h5t]

Richard Wagner lebt.....

[@ricardorojas5724]

Dommage pour la mise en scène, les costumes sont dégénérés et absurdes, cela semblait de très mauvais goût, cela ternit la grande œuvre de Wagner. Lastima de la puesta en escena, el vestuario es degenerado y absurdo, se parecia un muy mal gusto, desluce a la gran obra de Wagner. Schade um die Inszenierung, die Kostüme sind degeneriert und absurd, es wirkt sehr geschmacklos, es trübt das große Werk Wagners.

[@honeyinglune8957]

Lol

[@MrJokerjames]

this is Paris Version