The eighth of nine programmes featuring recordings by the great tenor. Although he is supremely successful in the Italian and French repertories, Domingo sees no reason why he should not also apply his talents to the music of Wagner, usually regarded as the province of specialists. Michael Oliver introduces a mid-eighties performance of Lohengrin and concentrates on those passages in which the title role is the dominant presence (the later part of Act 1 and the whole of Act 3). Wagner Lohengrin
The opera tells of the classic "knight in shining armour", who appears in a swan-drawn boat to champion the cause of Elsa against her false accuser Telramund. The victorious knight offers Elsa his hand in marriage, but she must never ask him his name.
Vienna State Opera Chorus and Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Georg Solti Discs
Next Saturday. Domingo sings the role of Riccardo in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera