Release Date

10 Jan, 1986

Runtime

03:43: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

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.

Original Title

Lohengrin - Metropolitan Opera

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Actors

Peter Hofmann

Éva Marton

Leonie Rysanek

Leif Roar

Anthony Raffell

John Macurdy

Charles Anthony

John Gilmore

John Darrenkamp

Richard Vernon

Christian Collins

James Levine

MET Orchestra

Crew

James Levine

Peter J. Hall

Gil Wechsler

Brian Large

August Everding

Ming Cho Lee

Victor Callegari

August Everding

Nina Lawson

Jay David Saks

Michael Bronson

Samuel Paul

Richard Wagner

Richard Wagner