The Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin (2023)

Audience Score
70
The Metropolitan Opera Lohengrin
NR 3 hr 51 minMar 13th, 2023Music
Wagners 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 Wagners breathtaking music with Music Director Yannick NézetSéguin 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 Bassbaritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortruds powerhungry husband Telramund and bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich