Wagner Tannhäuser (2015)

Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagners early Romantic opera starring Johan Botha in the title role of the minnesinger torn between earthly passion and true love EvaMaria Westbroek is Elisabeth whose unswerving devotion redeems Tannhäusers soul and Peter Mattei sings Wolfram his faithful friend Michelle DeYoung as the love goddess Venus and Günther Groissböck as Landgraf Hermann complete the cast Otto Schenks classic production was the first of his acclaimed Wagner stagings at the Met