Tannhäuser opens Longborough's season

By Peter Reynolds, 10 June 2016

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Reviewed at Longborough Festival Opera, Moreton-in-Marsh on 9 June 2016

Wagner, Tannhäuser

Longborough Festival Opera

Anthony Negus, Conductor

Alan Privett, Director

John Treleaven, Tannhäuser

Erika Mädi Jones, Elisabeth

Alison Kettlewell, Venus

Hrolfur Saemundsson, Wolfram von Eschenbach

Brian Smith Walters, Heinrich der Schreiber

Julian Hubbard, Walther von der Vogelweide

Stuart Pendred, Biterolf

Donald Thomson, Landgraf Hermann

Charles Johnston, Reinmar von Zweter

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Peter Reynolds

Peter Reynolds was a composer and writer on music living in Cardiff. He was a part-time member of staff at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama and, in 2009, published a history of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales. Very sadly he passed away on 11th October 2016.

Impressively conducted Tannhäuser from Anthony Negus opens Longborough’s season