Celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Metropolitan Operas Peabody and Emmy Award-winning series The Met: Live in HD. An encore performance of Wagners Tannhäuser will be shown in select cinemas on Wednesday, November 4.
James Levine conducts Wagners early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Todays leading Wagnerian tenor Johan Botha takes on the daunting title role, opposite soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek as Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of his recent triumph in Parsifal, baritone Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus.