Andris Nelsons led the BSO through an unforgettable traversal of excerpts from Wagner’s Tannhäuser, an opera based on two German legends: Tannhäuser, a mythical medieval German singer and poet, and the Wartburg song contest. Sacred love (in this opera personified by Elisabeth, niece of Landgrave Herman) struggles against the profane (represented by Venus), and redemption comes
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