He's conducting the Met's Tannhäuser, which opens this week. The production is....moth-eaten, from 1977, one of the hyper-realistic (and kinda dull!) Schenk/Schneider-Siemssen productions. BUT it's an excellent cast and conductor:
Tannhäuser
Music by Richard Wagner
Libretto by the composer
Thursday, November 30, at 7PM
Sunday, December 3, at 2PM
Wednesday, December 6, at 7PM
Saturday, December 9, at 7PM
Tuesday, December 12, at 7PM
Saturday, December 16, at 7PM
Tuesday, December 19, at 7PM
Saturday, December 23, at 1PM
Conductor | Donald Runnicles | ||
Production | Otto Schenk | ||
Set Designer | Günther Schneider-Siemssen | ||
Costume Designer | Patricia Zipprodt | ||
Lighting Designer | Gil Wechsler | ||
Choreographer | Norbert Vesak | ||
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Elisabeth | Elza van den Heever | ||
Venus | Ekaterina Gubanova | ||
Tannhäuser | Andreas Schager | ||
Wolfram | Christian Gerhaher* | ||
Landgraf Hermann | Georg Zeppenfeld |
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