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Wagner's Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House

07/07/2018

BBC Radio 3 - Opera on 3, Wagner's Lohengrin at the Royal Opera House

Wagner's Lohengrin, conducted by Andris Nelsons, at the Royal Opera House in London.

Wagner's Lohengrin conducted by Andris Nelsons, recorded at the Royal Opera House in London. Klaus Florian Vogt sings the title role wtih Jennifer Davis as Elsa, his doomed lover.

Wagner's Lohengrin, recorded earlier this month at the Royal Opera House in London, with a stellar cast lead by tenor Klaus Florian Vogt in the title role and the soprano Jennifer Davis as Elsa von Brabant. Based on a German medieval romance, the noble and pure knight Lohengrin is sent to defend and protect Elsa, and as the couple fall madly in love, a dark conspiracy based on treason and jealousy threatens to undermine them, with tragic consequences. Wagner named Lohengrin a 'Romantic opera', and significantly he developed on it his first attempts to write a through-composed music drama, innovating the genre and changing it for ever. Latvian maestro Andris Nelsons conducts the Royal Opera House orchestra and chorus.
Presented by Martin Handley with contributions from Dr Barbara Eichner, Senior Lecturer of Music at Oxford Brookes University.

Lohengrin ..... Klaus Florian Vogt (tenor)
Elsa von Brabant ..... Jennifer Davis (soprano)
Ortrud ..... Christine Goerke (soprano)
Friedrich von Telramund ..... Thomas J. Mayer (baritone)
Heinrich I ..... Georg Zeppenfeld (bass)
Herald ..... Kostas Smoriginas (bass-baritone)
First Noble of Brabant ..... Konu Kim (tenor)
Second Noble of Brabant ..... Thomas Atkins (tenor)
Third Noble of Brabant ..... Gyula Nagy (baritone)
Fourth Noble of Brabant ..... Simon Shibambu (bass)

Royal Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).

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