They also wanted a ballet in the second act. In 1859, Wagner offered Tannhäuser to the Paris Opéra. The second performance played to a near empty house. His Venus said, "You are a genius, but you write such eccentric stuff that it is impossible to sing." His Tannhäuser was completely baffled.
He conducted the first performance that month at the Royal Opera House. Returning home to Dresden, he immersed himself in the tale. He began preparing an outline for Tannhäuser. Vacationing in Bohemia, he had a change of heart. Back in Germany however, he gathered materials by Tieck, Heine, and others about Tannhäuser. A friend suggested Tannhäuser as a subject. Wagner was in Paris completing The Flying Dutchman when he began thinking about writing another opera. Premiere of Richard Wagner's opera, Tannhäuser on 19th October 1845, with Joseph Tichatschek as Tannhäuser and Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient as Venus. Meanwhile, the opera opened the second season of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in November 1884. It was not staged again in France until 1895. By 1861, the opera had been performed many times in Germany when Wagner was asked to revise the work for the Paris Opéra. In 1859, Tannhäuser was the first Wagner opera to be performed in the United States of America. It was first performed at the Dresden Royal Opera on 19 October 1845 with Wagner conducting. Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg (En: Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg) is a three-act opera with words and music by Richard Wagner. Tannhäuser and the Singers' Contest at Wartburg Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg
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