Lohengrin
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.
Top Cast
Peter Hofmann
Lohengrin
Éva Marton
Elsa
Leonie Rysanek
Ortrud
Leif Roar
Telramund
Anthony Raffell
The King's Herald
John Macurdy
King Henry
Charles Anthony
First noble
John Gilmore
Second noble
John Darrenkamp
Third noble
Richard Vernon
Fourth noble
Christian Collins
Gottfried
MET Orchestra
