Meeting Venus
1991, Film, 119 min, Comedy, Drama, Romance, English, United States, MoviePedia score 63
Celebrated Swedish opera star Karin Anderson is slated to appear in an internationally-telecast production of Tannhauser. Ms. Anderson balks at the notion of working with obscure Hungarian conductor Zoltan Szanto. The much-anticipated production may never get off the ground, thanks to labor-management difficulties, intramural jealousies, and clashing egos. Amidst all this chaos, the mismatched Anderson and Szanto fall in love.
Directed by István Szabó
Cast
- Glenn Close as Karin Anderson
- Niels Arestrup as Zoltan Szanto
- Kiri Te Kanawa as Elisabeth (Tannhäuser highlights performed by)
- René Kollo as Tannhäuser (Tannhäuser highlights performed by)
- Håkan Hagegård as Wolfram von Eschenbach (Tannhäuser highlights performed by)
- Waltraud Meier as Venus (Tannhäuser highlights performed by)
- Renate Spingler as A young shepherd (Tannhäuser highlights perfomed by)
- Matthias Hölle as The Landgrave (Tannhäuser highlights performed by)
- Kim Begley as Walther von der Vogelweide (Tannhäuser highlights performed by)
- Robin Leggate as Heinrich der Schreiber (Tannhäuser highlights performed by)
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