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The Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin (2023) 

The Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin

(2023)

Runtime

4 hours 55 minutes

Guidance Rating

TBA

Release Date (South Africa)

2023-04-14

music

Synopsis

Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Soprano Tamara Wilson is the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, going head to head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud’s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich.

Featuring

Piotr Beczala

Tamara Wilson

Christine Goerke

Evgeny Nikitin

Cinemas showing

The Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin