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Lohengrin - Metropolitan Opera (1986)
Directed by Brian Large, August Everding
Music · 3h 43m
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.
Cast
Peter Hofmann
Lohengrin
Éva Marton
Elsa
Leonie Rysanek
Ortrud
L
Leif Roar
Telramund
A
Anthony Raffell
The King's Herald
John Macurdy
King Henry
C
Charles Anthony
First noble
J
John Gilmore
Second noble
J
John Darrenkamp
Third noble
Richard Vernon
Fourth noble
C
Christian Collins
Gottfried
James Levine
Self - Conductor
Crew
- Director
- Brian Large, August Everding
- Writer
- Richard Wagner
- Original Music Composer
- Richard Wagner
- Producer
- Samuel Paul
Details
- Release date
- 1986-01-10
- Runtime
- 3h 43m
- Genres
- Music
- Original language
- DE
- Spoken languages
- German
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- The Metropolitan Opera