Venusberg

The Venusberg is a cage with ape-men and animals, including three giant tadpoles - could these represent the three Graces who intervene to halt the ever more frantic proceedings?

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

The Venusberg is a cage with ape-men and animals, including three giant tadpoles - could these represent the three Graces who intervene to halt the ever more frantic proceedings?

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

'Venusberg' amid the pleasant associations of such a trip.

My Life — Volume 1 Richard Wagner 1848

For the performance of Tannhauser, at Paris, I re-wrote the scene in the "Venusberg" on a larger scale: at one of the rehearsals I explained to the ballet master that the little tripping pas of his Maenads and Bacchantes contrasted miserably with my music, and asked him to arrange something wild and bold for his corps -- something akin to the groups of Bacchantes on ancient bas - reliefs.

On Conducting (Üeber Das Dirigiren) : a Treatise on Style in the Execution of Classical Music, Richard Wagner 1848

The 'Venusberg' will be sung to empty benches if you insist. "

Evelyn Innes 1892

Krivine kept his heart well off his sleeve, to be sure, but reveled in the range of colors that the score and orchestra offered him, bringing out the ethereal other-worldly watercolor quality of the Liszt which sounded like a direct precursor of the Wagner of "Tannhäuser's" Venusberg, or letting the horns shine in the Strauss.

Krivine, NSO show lightness of being in Beethoven, Liszt Anne Midgette 2010

Victoria Hotel, Sportsman's Hotel, Magic, Home From Home, Ye New Neu Bablesberg, The Martian (very chic), the Venusberg (very bawdy), and the other dozens ...

Wild Dreams of Reality, 5 2010

For Judge, Venusberg was sort of a politically correct red-light district where a number of hardbody men and women were recruited to cavort bare-chested in red or nude color g-strings in various combinations.

Love for Sale 2007

The design was equal parts Dan Flavin and Erte with a large, angled, black lacquer room, the two sides of which rested on angled rotating platforms allowing the sides of the room to be altered in different ways to represent Venusberg, the Wartburg Hall, or the outdoors.

Love for Sale 2007

For Judge, Venusberg was sort of a politically correct red-light district where a number of hardbody men and women were recruited to cavort bare-chested in red or nude color g-strings in various combinations.

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