Lohengrin

The Teatro dell'Opera di Roma presents Richard Wagner's evocative and exciting opera, staged for five unmissable dates, in a new production realised with the Palau de les Arts in Valencia and the Teatro La Fenice in Venice.

Lohengrin, which returns to the Costanzi stage after a fifty-year absence, is the sixth romantic opera by the master of musical drama, composed between 1845 and 1848 and inspired by Parzival, a medieval epic poem by Wolfram von Eschenbach.

The opera is set in the 10th century in Antwerp, on the banks of the River Scheldt, where Lohengrin, a mysterious knight, appears on a boat pulled by a swan, having come to defend the young Elsa, who has been unjustly accused of her brother's crime. The man gives her his love, but she never has to ask him his name or where he comes from. When the woman breaks her promise, Lohengrin, the son of Parsifal, guardian of the Holy Grail, must reveal his origins and return to the sacred kingdom.

Against the backdrop of Paolo Fantin's sets, a cast of great singers, including Dmitry Korchak (Lohengrin), making his debut in a Wagner opera, Clive Bayley (Heinrich der Vogler), Jennifer Holloway (Elsa), Tómas Tómasson (Friedrich von Telramund), Ekaterina Gubanova (Ortrud), and Andrei Bondarenko (Der Heerufer), with the direction of Damiano Michieletto and musical conduction by Michele Mariotti, both of whom, as the famous Russian tenor, performing a composition by the German genius for the first time.

Photo: The audience at Rome Opera House, ph. Fabrizio Sansoni, Teatro dell'Opera di Roma