Tannhäuser

As someone who greatly appreciates the soaring and stimulating music as well as the mix of myth and legend in their plots of Wagner’s operas I was interested to read an online article from the LBV magazine about the basis, such as it can be ascertained,  for the legend of the thirteenth century figure of Tannhäuser.
 

The piece can be read at The Enigma of Tannhäuser, the 13th-Century German Poet Who Found the Venusberg

The Wikipedia entry about him is quite short but it can be read in conjunction with the other article at Tannhäuser

Then sit back and find a recording or video of what is one of Wagner’s early masterpieces…