Tannhäuser: Performance History
First performance: 19 October 1845,
Königlich Sächsisches Hoftheater, Dresden
Cast:
- Tannhäuser : Josef Aloys Tichatschek
(also created title role in Rienzi)
- Venus : Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient
(also created roles of Adriano in Rienzi
and Senta in Der Fliegende Holländer)
- Elisabeth : Johanna Wagner
- Ein Hirt : Anna Thiele
(also created role of a Peace Messenger in Rienzi)
- Wolfram von Eschenbach : Anton Mitterwurzer
(also created role of Kurwenal in Tristan und Isolde)
- Landgraf Hermann : Georg Wilhelm Dettmer
(also created role of Steffano Colonna in Rienzi)
- Walther von der Vogelweide : Max Schloss
- Biterolf : Johann Michael Wächter
(also created role of Paolo Orsini in Rienzi
and title role in Der Fliegend Holländer)
- Heinrich der Schreiber : Anton Curty
- Reinmar von Zweter : Karl Risse
(also created roles of Ceccho di Vecchio in Rienzi
and Daland in Der Fliegende Holländer)
First performance of the revised version: 13 March 1861,
L'Opéra, Paris
Cast:
- Tannhäuser : Albert Niemann
(also created role of Siegmund in the Ring)
- Venus : Fortunata Tedesco
- Elisabeth : Marie Sass
- Ein Hirt : Reboux
- Wolfram von Eschenbach : Morelli
- Landgraf Hermann : Cazaux
- Walther von der Vogelweide : Aimes
- Biterolf : Coulon
- Heinrich der Schreiber : König
- Reinmar von Zweter : Freret
First performance in:
- Poland: 6 Oct 1852, Wroclaw
- Latvia: 18 Jan 1853, Riga
- Estonia: Jan 1854, Tallinn
- Austria: 20 Jan 1854, Graz
- Czech Republic: 25 Nov 1854, Prague
- Switzerland: 16 Feb 1855, Zurich
- Belgium: 13 Mar 1855, Antwerp
- France: 12 Jul 1855, Strasbourg
- Finland: 5 Aug 1857, Helsinki
- Netherlands: 24 Mar 1858, Amsterdam
- United States: 4 Apr 1859, New York (Stadt Theater)
[first Wagner opera performed in United States]
- Hungary: 6 Mar 1862, Budapest
- Romania: 11 Aug 1866, Sibiu
- Italy: 7 Nov 1872, Bologna
- Slovenia: Mar 1874, Ljubljana
- Russia: 25 Feb 1873, St. Petersburg [18 Nov 1853 Königsberg]
- Denmark: 17 Mar 1875, Copenhagen
- Norway: 18 Nov 1876, Oslo
- United Kingdom: 6 May 1876, London (Covent Garden)
- Sweden: 16 Aug 1876, Stockholm
- Spain: 11 Feb 1887, Barcelona
- Mexico: 29 Mar 1891, Mexico
- Brazil: 30 Sep 1892, Rio de Janeiro
- Portugal: 23 Dec 1893, Lisbon
- Argentina: 21 Jul 1894, Buenos Aires
- Croatia: 5 Jun 1895, Zagreb
- Canada: 29 Apr 1896, Montreal [concert]
- Algeria: 25 Mar 1897, Algiers
- Chile: 24 Jul 1897, Santiago
- Egypt: 20 Feb 1898, Alexandria
- South Africa: 1905, Johannesburg
- Lithuania: 26 Oct 1930, Kaunas
- Bulgaria: 30 Jan 1931, Sofia
First performance at:
- Bayreuth Festspielhaus: 1891
- Metropolitan Opera: 17 Nov 1884
(263 performances in 54 seasons through 1975-76)
- San Francisco Opera: 23 Sep 1930
(25 performances in 8 seasons through 1997-98,
most recently 2 Nov 1994)
12 May 2008