Tannhäuser
Author: first_name: Richard
last_name: Wagner
Language: English
Year: 1906

The legend of Tannhäuser, the Minstrel Knight who, having betrayed his love for the virtuous Elizabeth by dallying in the Venusberg, reveals his sins during a song contest and is forced to undertake a pilgrimage to Rome to seek absolution from the Pope.
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The text of Richard Wagner's opera is here freely translated as a dramatic poem. - Summary by Alan Mapstone