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Tannhäuser brings a new dimension to Melbourne Opera

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“Elisabeth, like a traveller at an airport carousel searching for her luggage, grew... agitated”
Reviewed at Regent Theatre, Melbourne on 17 August 2016
Wagner, Tannhäuser
Melbourne Opera
David Kram, Conductor
Suzanne Chaundy, Director
Lee Abrahmsen, Elisabeth
Sarah Sweeting, Venus
Marius Vlad, Tannhäuser
Manfred Pohlenz, Wolfram von Eschenbach
Jason Wasley, Walther von der Vogelweide
Eddie Muliaumaseali'i, Landgraf Hermann
Melbourne Opera Chorus
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