Wagner's Lohengrin Tickets
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Wagner's Lohengrin Tickets

Magic, murder, and mayhem combine in this epic opera.
Wagner's Lohengrin: What to expect - 1
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Wagner's Lohengrin Tickets

About Wagner's Lohengrin

Wagner’s 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 Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Sopranos Tamara Wilson and Elena Stikhina, as the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, go head-to-head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud’s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich.

World premiere: Großherzogliches Hoftheater, Weimar, 1850 Lohengrin stands at the epicenter of Richard Wagner’s career—chronologically, thematically, and artistically. It is a Romantic-era reimagining of a persistent Medieval legend about a mystical knight who champions an oppressed maiden on the sole condition that she never ask his name, and the issues at stake range from the spiritual (the role of the divine in human lives) to the political (nation building in times of transition and migration) to the deeply personal (the centrality of mystery in erotic attraction). The wide thematic divergence within the story spurred Wagner to create a score that triumphantly covers all bases, breathtaking in its sweeping variety, yet approachable and theatrically effective.

Start date

February 26th, 2023

End date

April 1st, 2023

Categories

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Reviews

Audiences Say
Great singing, Absorbing, Ambitious, Great staging, Entertaining
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19 reviews on Show-Score

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BON VIVANT
Musically as good as it gets, Star power
90 / 100
GreatAvi
Mesmerizing staging, Majestic music, Powerful chorus
90 / 100
DJ 0214
Great staging, Great singing, Entertaining, Enchanting
84 / 100
Member 215333
Absorbing, Exhausting, Intense, Beautiful music, Ambitious
94 / 100
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Venue

30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, United States, 10023

Accessibility

Elevator access, wheelchair access, accessible listening devices, Braille and large print programs

Tickets

Unfortunately, tickets for this event are no longer available.

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