Richard Wagner
Lohengrin
The romantic opera Lohengrin, which premiered in 1871 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, is the country’s first fulminating contact with the dramaturgy and music of Richard Wagner. In the opera, considered the last of Wagner’s early works and inspired by the German epic poem Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, the story runs on two parallel tracks, myth and history, and the music reflects this duplicity: the vitreous sounds of the beginning the melancholy of Lohengrin’s song, the evocation of the distant “inaccessible” land of Montsalvat where the chalice of the Holy Grail is kept, merge with the direct references to a specific historical epoch.
New production of TCBO
CONDUCTOR
Asher Fisch
DIRECTOR
Luigi de Angelis (Fanny & Alexander)
CAST
ENRICO L’UCCELLATORE
Albert Dohem
LOHENGRIN
Ian Koziara
ELSA DI BRABANTE
Elisabet Strid / Martina Welschenbach
TELRAMUND
Lucio Gallo / Ólafur Sigurdarson
ORTRUD
Ricarda Merbeth / Anna Maria Chiuri
CHORUS MASTER
Gea Garatti Ansini
DRAMATURG & COSTUMES
Chiara Lagani
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR & VIDEO
Andrea Argentieri
ASSISTENT DIRECTOR
Greta Benini
ASSISTANT TO SETS
Giulia Rienzi
COSTUME ASSISTANT
Sofia Vannini
CHILDRENS CHORUS MASTER
Alhambra Superchi
COMPOSER
Richard Wagner
Richard Wagner (1813-1883) was the most representative composer of Romantic culture, author of poems that seek the maximum interpenetration between the musical structure and symbolic and evocative functions.
He was responsible for important theatrical innovations that have become his hallmark, such as the transformation of the orchestra into an enveloping sound amalgam thanks to the enrichment of the orchestral palette.
More mature works include the tetralogy of Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring of Nibelung), Tristan und Isolde and Parsifal.