Name: Lohengrin
Start: 1986-01-10T00:00:00.000Z
End: 1986-01-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

Organization

Bass

John Macurdy

Henry the Fowler

Tenor

Peter Hofmann

Lohengrin

Soprano

Eva Marton

Elsa of Brabant

Baritone

Leif Roar

Fredrick of Telramund

Leonie Rysanek

Ortrud

Conductor

James Levine

The Metropolitan Opera

Others

Metropolitan Opera Choir

Orchestra

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

German

New York City

United States

Metropolitan Opera House

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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