Lohengrin

United States of America

• 1986-01-10(US)
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  Music
• ▪ 3h-43m

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Overview

Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at first sight. Marton’s heroine is innocent, but she is also a passionate, real-life young woman—which is good, because Leonie Rysanek is positively demented as Ortrud, the sorceress who accuses Elsa and Lohengrin of using magic. With James Levine’s superb conducting, the orchestra and chorus are similarly magical.

• James LevineConductor

  Peter J. HallCostume Designer

  Gil WechslerLighting Design

  Brian LargeDirector

  August EverdingStage Director

  Ming Cho LeeSet Designer