“Tannhäuser” – Cast

Characters

Hermann (Landgrave of Thuringia) — Bass Tannhäuser (a minstrel knight) — Tenor Wolfram von Eschenbach (a minstrel knight) — Baritone Walther von der Vogelweide (a minstrel knight) — Tenor Biterolf (a minstrel knight) — Bass Heinrich the Scribe (a minstrel knight) — Tenor Reinmar von Zweter (a minstrel knight) — Bass Elisabeth (the Landgrave’s niece) — Soprano Venus (goddess of love) — Soprano A Young Shepherd — Soprano Four Pages — Soprano and Alto Thuringian knights, counts and noblemen, noblewomen, older and younger pilgrims, sirens, naiads, nymphs, bacchantes

Time and Place

Time: At the beginning of the thirteenth century Act One: The interior of the Hörselberg near Eisenach; a valley before the Wartburg Act Two: On the Wartburg Act Three: A valley before the Wartburg

OVERTURE