This week's Metropolitan Opera radio broadcast is Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser. Austrian tenor Andreas Schager returns as the knight Tannhäuser in Wagner’s ravishing opera of love, lust, and redemption. Soprano Elza van den Heever is the pure and virtuous princess Elisabeth, alongside mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as the tempting goddess of love, Venus. Maestro Donald Runnicles takes the podium for Otto Schenk’s classic production, which also features baritone Christian Gerhaher in his Met debut as Tannhäuser’s companion knight Wolfram and bass Georg Zeppenfeld as Landgraf Hermann.
Joshua Borths, Resident Scholar at Virginia Opera gives us a preview and you can hear his segments on my "Afternoon Classical" show each Friday afternoon just before 5pm.
Tune in to hear "Tannhäuser" Saturday afternoon, December 23rd at 1pm on VPM Music, 93.1 and 107.3 in central Virginia and streaming online here at vpm.org!
Yours in good music,
Mike Goldberg
Classical Host, VPM Music
