Overture: Tannhäuser

Year: 1926

Runtime: 10 mins

Language: English

Director: Edwin B. DuPar

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Henry Hadley (1871‑1937) leads the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Wagner’s Tannhäuser overture. The film uses two cameras: a fixed shot that captures Hadley and the full ensemble of over 80 tuxedoed musicians, and a modestly panning camera that moves closer to highlight roughly fifteen players at a time. The early talkie contains no spoken dialogue.

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