Tannhauser

The killer roles are Siegfried, Tristan, and Isolde; maybe Tannhauser, which is both high-lying and long.

What was He Thinking?? Lisa Hirsch 2009

Besides Herr Friedrich Uhl, whom I had got to know at the very beginning through Fischer, and who did me very good service, I was told of a Herr Franck (the same, I presume, who later on published a big epic work called Tannhauser), and a

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

Yet he betrayed a democratic fondness for Wagner, and the "Tannhauser" overture, when she had given him the clew to it, claimed him as nothing else she played.

Chapter 8 2010

I had never heard the songs live before, and was hoping for Total Transcendence, since they were being sung by Deborah Voigt, whose Elisabeth in "Tannhauser" in the early 1990s and the title role in "Ariadne auf Naxos" a few years ago at the San Francisco Opera were both definitive.

Archive 2008-01-01 sfmike 2008

I had never heard the songs live before, and was hoping for Total Transcendence, since they were being sung by Deborah Voigt, whose Elisabeth in "Tannhauser" in the early 1990s and the title role in "Ariadne auf Naxos" a few years ago at the San Francisco Opera were both definitive.

Four Almost-The-Last Songs sfmike 2008

Conductor Corrado Rovaris did what he could with this pedestrian early Wagner score, and it was fun to hear the occasional hint of "Tannhauser," still a decade in the future.

Shakespeare Drab and Dark Heidi Waleson 2008

Sorry we didn't connect last night, but the audition for "Tannhauser" supernumeraries went a little long and I made it to "Iphigenie" with just a few minutes to spare and I got cast, hurrah!

Telling Tales sfmike 2007

Wagner's early 1845 opera, "Tannhauser" is being given in a new production that's being built in San Francisco which is being directed by the new genius opera director from Britain, Graham Vick, in his San Francisco debut.

Archive 2007-08-01 sfmike 2007

The gentleman didn't seem to be coming or going to a movie shoot and he's definitely not in "Tannhauser" at the opera tonight.

Muni Outfit of the Month sfmike 2007

The reactions to San Francisco Opera's new production of Wagner's "Tannhauser" click here have been all over the map, with a few critics praising it to the skies, while most of the other critics are subjecting the High Concept production to various forms of ridicule.

Archive 2007-10-01 sfmike 2007