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Opera

In Norwich, a director is caught trying to murder Wagner’s Tannhäuser

But the music and singing win out in Theater Freiburg’s new production

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

2 August 2014

9:00 AM

Tannhäuser

Theater Freiburg, Norwich

Seventeen years ago the Norwegian National Opera staged two cycles of the Ring in Norwich’s Theatre Royal, performances that have remained vividly in the minds of anyone who saw them. Now Theater Freiburg has visited Norwich with two performances each of Parsifal and Tannhäuser. I was hoping to see both, but transport problems meant that I was only able to go to the second performance of Tannhäuser.

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