Tannhäuser discography
This is a partial discography of the opera Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner. It was first performed in Dresden on 19 October 1845. A revised version was first given in Paris on 13 March 1861.
List
Year | Cast (Tannhäuser, Elisabeth, Venus, Wolfram, Landgrave, Walther) |
Conductor, Opera House and Orchestra |
Label |
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1930 | Sigismund Pilinszky, Maria Müller, Ruth Jost-Arden, Herbert Janssen, Ivar Andrésen, Geza Belti-Pilinszky |
Karl Elmendorff, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus, Paris Version |
Audio CD: Naxos ,Cat: 8.110094-95 |
1941 | Lauritz Melchior, Kirsten Flagstad, Kerstin Thorborg, Herbert Janssen, Emanuel List, John Dudley |
Erich Leinsdorf, Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Paris Version |
Audio CD: Immortal Performances, Cat: IPCD 1101-3 |
1942 | Lauritz Melchior, Helen Traubel, Kerstin Thorborg, Herbert Janssen, Alexander Kipnis, John Garris |
George Szell, Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Paris Version |
Audio CD: Immortal Performances, Cat: IPCD 1053-3 |
1954 | , Brian Sullivan |
George Szell, Metropolitan Opera orchestra and chorus, Dresden Version |
Audio CD: Sony Classical, Cat: 886443900868 |
1955 | Wolfgang Windgassen, Gré Brouwenstijn, Herta Wilfert, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Josef Traxel |
André Cluytens, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus, Dresden Version (featuring Paris Bacchanale) |
Audio CD: Orfeo d'Or, Cat: C 643 043 D |
1960 | Hans Hopf, Elisabeth Grümmer, Marianne Schech, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gottlob Frick, Fritz Wunderlich |
Franz Konwitschny, Berlin State Opera orchestra and chorus, Dresden Version (reverts to Paris for small section in Act II) |
Audio CD: EMI, Cat: CMS 7 63214 2 |
1961 | Wolfgang Windgassen, Victoria de los Ángeles, Grace Bumbry, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Gerhard Stolze |
Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus, Dresden Version (featuring Paris Bacchanale) |
Audio CD: Orfeo d'Or, Cat: C 888 143 D |
1962 | Wolfgang Sawallisch, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus, Dresden Version (featuring Paris Bacchanale) |
Audio CD: Philips, Cat: 434 607-2 | |
1963 | Herbert von Karajan, Vienna State Opera orchestra and chorus, Paris Version |
Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon, Cat: 457682 | |
1968 | Wolfgang Windgassen, Birgit Nilsson, Birgit Nilsson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Theo Adam, Horst Laubenthal |
Otto Gerdes, Deutsche Oper Berlin orchestra and chorus, Dresden Version (reverts to Paris for small section in Act II) |
Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon, Cat: 471 708-2 |
1970 | René Kollo, Helga Dernesch, Christa Ludwig, Victor Braun, Hans Sotin, Werner Hollweg |
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, ,Vienna State Opera chorus Paris Version (reverts to Dresden for small section in Act II) |
Audio CD: Decca, Cat: 470 810-2 |
1978 | Colin Davis, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus, Dresden Version (featuring Paris Bacchanale) |
DVD: DG, Cat: 073 4446 | |
1985 | Klaus König, Lucia Popp, Waltraud Meier, Bernd Weikl, Kurt Moll, Siegfried Jerusalem |
Bernard Haitink, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra Dresden Version |
Audio CD: EMI, Cat: CMS 7 47296 8 |
1988 | Plácido Domingo, Cheryl Studer, Agnes Baltsa, Andreas Schmidt, Matti Salminen, William Pell |
Giuseppe Sinopoli, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Opera House chorus, Paris Version |
Audio CD: Deutsche Grammophon, Cat: 427 625-2 |
2001 | Thomas Hampson, ,René Pape Gunnar Gudbjörnsson |
Daniel Barenboim, Berlin Staatskapelle orchestra, Berlin State Opera chorus, Dresden Version (uses Paris Version of Act I, minus ballet sequence) |
Audio CD: Teldec, Cat: 8573 88064-2 |
2014 | Peter Seiffert, Ann Petersen, Marina Prudenskaya, Peter Mattei, René Pape, Peter Sonn |
Daniel Barenboim, Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin State Opera chorus, Dresden Version (uses Paris Version of Act I, Scene I, including ballet sequence) |
DVD: Bel Air Classiques, ASIN: B0168HCVM8 |
2010 | Stig Fogh Andersen, Tina Kiberg, Susanne Resmark, Tommi Hakala, Stephen Milling, Peter Lodahl |
Royal Danish Opera, and chorus,Royal Danish Orchestra |
2 DVD: DECCA, cat: 074 3390 |
2020 | Stephen Gould, Lise Davidsen, Elena Zhidkova, Markus Eiche, Stephen Milling |
Valery Gergiev, Bayreuth Festival Orchestra and chorus, Tobias Kratzer, stage director |
DVD: Deutsche Grammophon, Cat:735760 |
References
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