RUNNING TIME: 4:20
STARRING: Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, Johan Botha
DIRECTOR: James Levine
PRODUCER(S): Otto Schenk
WRITER(S): Richard Wagner
MOVIE SYNOPSIS: James Levine conducts Wagner’s early masterpiece in its first return to the Met stage in more than a decade. Today’s leading Wagnerian tenor, Johan Botha, takes on the daunting title role of the young knight caught between true love and passion. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, adding another Wagner heroine to her Met repertoire after her acclaimed Sieglinde in the Ring a few seasons ago. On the heels of his recent triumph in Parsifal, Peter Mattei sings Wolfram, and Michelle DeYoung is the love goddess, Venus.