Tannhäuser réhabilité (1) – Les échos parisiens de la première à la Colline Verte
Tannhäuser Rehabilitated (1) – the Parisian Echoes of the Premiere on the Green Hill

Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the French reception of Tannhäuser after the failure of the three première performances in March 1861. From 1862 to 1894 the Parisian audience had to content itself with shorter or longer selections of this opera executed during Sunday concerts of Jules Pasdeloup’s, Édouard Colonne’s and Charles Lamoureux orchestras. In 1891 some French and foreign journalists, encouraged by the first Tannhäuser’s representations in Bayreuth, the Temple of Wagnerian art, began the discussions on the value of this work, some of them trying to prove that it is a musical drama as good as his later achievements, some others, on the contrary, pretending that Tannhäuser is an opera, marvelous, outstanding, extraordinary, but only an opera.

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