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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Cast
- Peter HofmannLohengrin
- Éva MartonElsa
- Leonie RysanekOrtrud
- Leif RoarTelramund
- Anthony RaffellThe King's Herald
- John MacurdyKing Henry
- Charles AnthonyFirst noble
- John GilmoreSecond noble
- John DarrenkampThird noble
- Richard VernonFourth noble
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- Brian LargeDirector
- August EverdingDirector
- Richard WagnerWriter
- Richard WagnerOriginal Music Composer
- Samuel PaulProducer
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