Lohengrin - Metropolitan Opera
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.
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Peter Hofmann
Lohengrin
Also in
Wagner: Die Walküre
Glückliche Reise
Éva Marton
Elsa
Also in
Turandot
Il Trovatore
Leonie Rysanek
Ortrud
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Elektra
Elektra
Leif Roar
Telramund
Also in
Wagner: Das Rheingold
Lohengrin
Anthony Raffell
The King's Herald
Also in
Götterdämmerung
John Macurdy
King Henry
Also in
Don Giovanni
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
Charles Anthony
First noble
Also in
Puccini: Turandot
Otello
John Gilmore
Second noble
Also in
Lucia di Lammermoor
Don Carlo
John Darrenkamp
Third noble
Also in
La Forza del Destino - Metropolitan Opera
Francesca da Rimini
Richard Vernon
Fourth noble
Also in
Elektra
The Metropolitan Opera - Wagner: Tannhäuser
Christian Collins
Gottfried
James Levine
Self - Conductor
Also in
Il Tabarro & Pagliacci
La traviata
Brian Large Director · August Everding Director Richard Wagner Writer
United States release January 10, 1986 · Produced in United States
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The Metropolitan Opera
Production
United States
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
German
Release dates
United States · January 10, 1986
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