Lohengrin

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• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Jennifer Davis als Elsa Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Ryan Speedo Green als Heinrich, Jordan Shanahan als Telramund, Dean Murphy als Der Heerrufer, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Jordan Shanahan als Telramund Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa, David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Ryan Speedo Green als Heinrich, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jordan Shanahan als Telramund, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud, Jordan Shanahan als Telramund Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Ryan Speedo Green als Heinrich, Dean Murphy als Der Heerrufer Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jordan Shanahan als Telramund, David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Jennifer Davis als Elsa, Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Jennifer Davis als Elsa Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa, David Butt Philip als Lohengrin u. a. Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Ryan Speedo Green als Heinrich Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Eine Szenenimpression aus dem letzten Aufzug. Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa, David Butt Philip als Lohengrin Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Yulia Matochkina als Ortrud, Jennifer Davis als Elsa, David Butt Philip als Lohengrin Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – Jennifer Davis als Elsa, David Butt Philip als Lohengrin Bettina Stöß

• Lohengrin – David Butt Philip als Lohengrin, Jennifer Davis als Elsa, Ryan Speedo Green als Heinrich Bettina Stöß

Soon after the failure of the 1848 revolution, the political refugee Richard Wagner wrote his LOHENGRIN: an opera about a hero who tries in vain to pacify a divided people. Kasper Holten's production deliberately leaves open whether this leader fights by fair means ... Conductor: Ivan Repušić; Director: Kasper Holten; With Byung Gil Kim, Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki, Jordan Shanahan, Nina Stemme, Dean Murphy a.o.
About the workKing Henry I, “the Fowler”, is in Brabant to hold the Assizes and assert the nobles’ duty to provide militias to assist in military campaigns. Since the death of the Duke of Brabant, however, the succession has been a source of conflict. His children, Gottfried and Elsa, are wards of Count Telramund, but Gottfried has vanished and Telramund suspects Elsa of having killed him. A duel between her accuser and Elsa’s champion is organised to decide the issue. At the last moment a knight appears in a boat drawn by a swan, ready to defend Elsa’s honour. He is also prepared to take her as his wife on condition that she never ask him his name or where he hails from. Elsa agrees and the knight defeats Telramund.

It was Ortrud, wife of Telramund and daughter of Radbod, the last Frisian prince, who poisoned her husband’s opinion of Elsa, with a view to regaining the position she had once held. Now she sets about blocking Elsa’s marriage to the stranger and sowing mistrust in her mind. But Elsa remains steadfast and refuses to ask her husband-to-be where he comes from. But once in their bridal chamber, she regrets that she doesn’t know his identity and expresses her desire to be able to speak his name. Swearing to keep his secret, she asks the forbidden question. Telramund bursts into the room with his noblemen and is promptly killed by the knight, who then formally reproaches Elsa for breaking her oath. He announces that he is Lohengrin, a knight of the Holy Grail and son of Parsifal, and now has to leave, since his secret has been revealed. Ortrud is convinced that she has got what she wanted, but then Gottfried, Elsa’s absent brother, turns up, having been kidnapped by Ortrud and turned into …a swan. Lohengrin appoints Gottfried as heir to the throne and the swan bears Lohengrin away again. Elsa dies of a broken heart.

For a considerable period LOHENGRIN remained Wagner’s best received opera worldwide. That the opera has been the subject of so many different stage interpretations is doubtless not only down to the tragic love story involving Elsa and the Swan Knight but also because the material throws up social and political issues that remain acutely relevant today – not only the yearning of a traumatised nation for a charismatic leader but also the inability of human beings to attain and retain a utopia.

About the productionIs the Swan Knight really what he claims or is Lohengrin’s heroism just for show? Director Kasper Holten loses no time in presenting a nation under severe duress that is desperate for a redeemer – and as history often has it, Wagner’s romantic opera, too, provides us with a character who exploits the citizens’ need and sets himself up as a figurehead. Not only Elsa is won over by the new saviour; the people of Brabant are also convinced by the newcomer – even though he has used dubious tactics to defeat his adversary.

Artists/Collaborators: Ivan Repušić (Musikalische Leitung), Kasper Holten (Inszenierung), Steffen Aarfing (Bühne, Kostüme), Jesper Kongshaug (Licht), Jeremy Bines (Chöre), Byung Gil Kim (Heinrich der Vogler), Attilio Glaser (Lohengrin), Flurina Stucki (Elsa von Brabant), Jordan Shanahan (Friedrich von Telramund), Nina Stemme (Ortrud), Dean Murphy (Der Heerrufer des Königs), Patrick Cook (1. Brabantischer Edler), Jörg Schörner (2. Brabantischer Edler), Geon Kim (3. Brabantischer Edler), Stephen Marsh (4. Brabantischer Edler), Stephanie Lloyd (1. Edelknabe), Angelika Nolte (2. Edelknabe), Kristina Griep (3. Edelknabe), Saskia Klumpp (4. Edelknabe), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Chöre), Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin (Orchester)

Runtime: Sun, 06/04/2025 to Sun, 20/04/2025

Introduction (in German language): 45 minutes before beginning; Rang-Foyer

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• Date Sunday, 06/April/2025 17:00 (2 more dates)
• Venue Deutsche Oper Berlin
• Address Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin-Charlottenburg
• Price from €36.50

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