Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at first sight. Marton’s heroine is innocent, but she is also a passionate, real-life young woman—which is good, because Leonie Rysanek is positively demented as Ortrud, the sorceress who accuses Elsa and Lohengrin of using magic. With James Levine’s superb conducting, the orchestra and chorus are similarly magical.

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The operatic version of the famous story about a governess who fears her two charges are possessed.

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An excellent performance of this delightful opera. The principals are superb, especially the sisters...

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Part of an epoch-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, here is the 18-year old composer...

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The grand scale and magnificent acoustics of the Roman arena in Verona are ideally suited to the pag...

Woody Allen's production of the Puccini comic opera at LA Opera in 2015

On a June night in 2017, opera lovers thronged to the Royal Opera House in London to hear tenor Jona...

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The celebrated mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli joins Bryn Terfel for a recital of arias and duets reco...