LOHENGRIN

In the organizer's words:

Composer Richard Wagner. Libretto by Richard Wagner.

Romantic opera in three acts (1850)

A co-production with the Shanghai Opera House

In German language. With surtitles in German and English. New production.

A young boy has disappeared, the heir to the throne of an ancient empire. His sister is accused of his death. Instead of defending herself, she calls upon a dream figure to stand by her side. And her knight, who actually arrives, wins her cause and her heart. But she is never asked who he actually is. Elsa and Lohengrin could now be a happy ruling couple. But the ban on questions stands in the way of the urge to know, the romantic wonder is opposed by the desire to know, enlightenment is not compatible with blind faith. The doubts that her adversaries awaken in Elsa - Ortrud, who clings to the old gods, and Telramund, who has lost his honor - are inherently sown in every human being. Wagner's music expresses the seductive and risky nature of Lohengrin's desire, who longs for love for its own sake. Kornél Mundruczó's new production explores the ambivalent potential that lies in the design of a man who is superior to the normal and endowed with supernatural powers. For him, Lohengrin is "the most provocative inhuman figure in the entire operatic cosmos". The action takes place in a post-human world in which a group of survivors full of fear and questions hope for redemption.

CAST:

Musical direction: Sebastian Weigle

Production: Kornél Mundruczó

Co-direction: Marcos Darbyshire

Stage: Monika Pormale

Costumes: Anna Axer Fijalkowska

Lighting: Felice Ross

Dramaturgy: Kata Wéber, Malte Krasting

Chorus: Christoph Heil

Heinrich der Vogler: René Pape

Lohengrin: Piotr Beczała

Elsa von Brabant: Rachel Willis-Sørensen

Friedrich von Telramund: Wolfgang Koch

Ortrud: Anja Kampe

Heerrufer of the King: Kostas Smoriginas

Four Brabant noblemen: Granit Musliu, Samuel Stopford, Yosif Slavov, Bruno Khouri

Four noble boys: Soloist(s) of the Tölzer Knabenchor

Bavarian State Orchestra

Bavarian State Opera Choir

Price information:

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