Wagner: Tannhauser (Blu-ray)

A brand new production of 'Tannhäuser' at the Staatsoper Berlin conducted by Daniel Barenboim, staged and choreographed by Sasha Waltz, who has already staged Purcell and Berlioz, Dusapin, Rihm and Hosokawa. Now Sasha Waltz brings to the stage a grand romantic Wagner's opera with a star cast of some of today best Wagnerian singers: Peter Seiffert in the title role, René Pape as Landgraf and Peter Mattei as Wolfram, Ann Petersen sings Elisabeth and Marina Prudenskaya is Venus. Recorded at Staatsoper, I'm Schiller Theater Berlin, in April 2014.