Tannhäuser - Grand Théâtre de Genève (2025) - Tannhäuser - Grand Théâtre de Genève (2025)

Description

New production,
co-production with the Deutsche Oper Berlin.

"With set designer Henrik Ahr and costume designer Barbara Drosihn, Tatjana Gürbaca brings her vision to life through an evolving scenography concept. The Venusberg, a mental space, a synthesis of the experiences of Tannhäuser, will be a stage machine of perfect circularity, gradually opening onto the Wartburg. Similarly, the costumes will gradually move from dreamlike to chaos, then to stripped-down. Mark Elder, the dean and great lord among British conductors, will lead a cast with a proven Wagnerian pedigree. In the title role, Daniel Johansson (Parsifal at the GTG in 2023) will face the Elisabeth of the young British soprano Jennifer Davis and the Venus of the mezzo Victoria Karkacheva – a brilliant Charlotte in the recent Werther at La Scala in Milan. Returning to the stage of the Grand Théâtre de Genève after his recent Posa (Don Carlos, 2023), the baritone Stéphane Degout will offer the nobility of his singing and his playing to Wolfram von Eschenbach, the poet friend and rival of Tannhäuser."

More information is available on the official website of the Theater.