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Wagner's Lohengrin

Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Wagner's Lohengrin at the Metropolitan Opera House. Piotr BeczaΕ‚a sings the title role with Tamara Wilson as Elsa, his doomed lover.

Wagner's Lohengrin, with a stellar cast led by tenor Piotr BeczaΕ‚a in the title role and the soprano Tamara Wilson as Elsa von Brabant.

Based on a German medieval romance, the noble and pure knight Lohengrin is sent to defend and protect Elsa, and as the couple fall madly in love, a dark conspiracy based on treason and jealousy threatens to undermine them, with tragic consequences. Wagner named Lohengrin a 'Romantic opera', and significantly he developed on it his first attempts to write a through-composed music drama, innovating the genre and changing it forever.

Presented by Debra Lew Harder, in conversation with Ira Siff.

Lohengrin ..... Piotr BeczaΕ‚a (tenor)
Elsa von Brabant ..... Tamara Wilson (soprano)
Ortrud ..... Christine Goerke (soprano)
Friedrich von Telramund ..... Evgeny Nikitin (baritone)
Heinrich I ..... Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich (bass)
Herald ..... Brian Mulligan (bass-baritone)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metrapolitan Opera House
Yannick Nézet-Séguin (conductor).

4 hours, 29 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 Mar 2023 18:00

Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    Overture des Francs-juges transc for piano

    Performer: Leslie Howard.
    • Liszt: The complete music for solo piano - Volume 5: Leslie Howard.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

Broadcast

  • Sat 18 Mar 2023 18:00