WERELDJONGERENDAG OP DE HOERSELBERG Binnen de Wagnercanon is Tannhäuser voor mij het meest problematische werk. Daarmee sta ik heus niet alleen. Mark Berry formuleerde het deze week aldus in “The Wagner Journal” : “Taken at face value, the story of Tannhäuser is doubly distant to modernist sensibilities. The medieval troubadour, his understanding informed by religious ritual and courtly convention, is historically distant from our secular social context; whilst his 19th century romantic re-creation, agonising over the distinction between sacred and profane love, is psychologically distant from our ethical context. This double-distancing creates problems for any self-consciously modernist staging of Tannhäuser”.
Vera Nemirova's Tannhäuser in Frankfurt
Vera Nemirova's Tannhäuser in Frankfurt
Vera Nemirova's Tannhäuser in Frankfurt
WERELDJONGERENDAG OP DE HOERSELBERG Binnen de Wagnercanon is Tannhäuser voor mij het meest problematische werk. Daarmee sta ik heus niet alleen. Mark Berry formuleerde het deze week aldus in “The Wagner Journal” : “Taken at face value, the story of Tannhäuser is doubly distant to modernist sensibilities. The medieval troubadour, his understanding informed by religious ritual and courtly convention, is historically distant from our secular social context; whilst his 19th century romantic re-creation, agonising over the distinction between sacred and profane love, is psychologically distant from our ethical context. This double-distancing creates problems for any self-consciously modernist staging of Tannhäuser”.