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	Lohengrin (opera) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lohengrin is a romantic opera (or music drama) in three acts by Richard Wagner.
		Among those deeply moved by the fairy-tale opera was the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who later built the ideal fairy-tale castle and called it, after the Swan Knight, "New Swan Stone," or "Neuschwanstein".
		Elsa and Lohengrin are ushered in with the well-known bridal chorus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lohengrin_(opera) (861 words)

	Lohengrin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lohengrin first appears as "Loherangrin", the son of Parzival and Condwiramurs in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival.
		The story was picked up and expanded in the late 13th century Lohengrin by a certain "Nouhusius" or "Nouhuwius" who changed the character's name and tied the romance's Grail and Swan Knight elements into the history of the Holy Roman Empire.
		Lohengrin appears to defend Princess Elsa of Brabant from the false accusation of killing her younger brother (who turns out to be alive and returns at the end of the opera), according to rumors spread by her enemies.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lohengrin (559 words)

	Operas and Composers: A Pronunciation Guide
		: opera in five acts by Glinka; first performed in St. Petersburg in in 1842; characters are taken from Russian folklore; this opera serves as a prototype for the fantasy operas of Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky.
		: opera in three acts by Verdi; libretto is by Piave after a story by the younger Alexandre Dumas usually known as Camille; the story is about a beautiful courtesan who sacrifices everything for the one true love of her life; first performed in Venice in 1853.
		opera in two acts by Mozart; first performed in Vienna in 1791; the last opera of Mozart's opera; more properly called a Singspiel because of its German text; the story is both a fairy tale and a story full of religious truths.
	patriciagray.net /Operahtmls/works.html (2732 words)

	Lohengrin steamrollers the audience
		Lohengrin clears her name in combat with her accuser and wins her love, betrothing himself to her on the condition that she never ask his name or origin.
		Elsa does at last ask the fateful question, and Lohengrin satisfies her, revealing that he is a knight of the Round Table and resides on the lonely Montsalvat, guarding the Holy Grail with his knightly brethren.
		Lohengrin arrives and disembarks from his boat offstage, and we have to imagine the swan somewhere in the wings.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V105/N21/lohen.21a.html (844 words)

	The Wedding March from Lohengrin - Sound Clip - MSN Encarta
		One of the most popular melodies from opera is the “Bridal Chorus,” also known as the “Wedding March” from Lohengrin (1848).
		The opera, by German composer Richard Wagner, is based on a medieval legend.
		"Treulich geführt" from Lohengrin, composed by Richard Wagner, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Herbert von Karajan, from Wagner: Lohengrin (EMI CMS 7 69314 2) (p)1988 EMI Records Ltd. All rights reserved.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461551556/The_Wedding_March_from_Lohengrin.html (111 words)

	Saxon State Opera
		Lohengrin himself looked like a fairy tale knight, in high boots, silver mail and red cape, making it clear that he is a complete and unbearable element of fantasy in the hard-nosed Brabantine political order.
		In a nice touch, Lohengrin and Elsa began to adopt Ortrud’s palette as the were invested as Duchess and “Protector” in Act II.
		He’s the second-cast Lohengrin at the Met next season, a vastly larger house with a conductor not known for keeping the lid on the orchestra.
	users.adelphia.net /~srugare/music/lohengrin.htm (962 words)

	"Lohengrin" LA Opera Review by Paul Berenson
		The LA Opera's "Lohengrin" of Ricard Wagner is an interesting production by Maximillian Schell that mixes modern elements with traditional and a heavy dose of symbolism.
		Lohengrin makes his demand that she never asks him his name, lineage, or where he came from.
		Gosta Winbergh's Lohengrin is majestic as he reveals the splendor of the Grail and his lineage as the son of the King of the Grail Knights, Parsifal.
	www.paulb.com /lohengrin.htm (733 words)

	HeraldNet: Wagner opens opera season (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		A three-act opera on a grand scale, it's the story of the knight Lohengrin who uses his powers over evil to rescue a good woman and even promise her marriage, but only if he is never asked to reveal his name or his origins.
		Seattle Opera debuted this production 10 years ago, and it's back with a new cast of singers and the return of one very important character: the swan that draws the boat on which Lohengrin makes his dramatic entrance and exit.
		The sight of an oversized swan "swimming" gracefully across the opera house stage is a memorable moment in the opera.
	www.heraldnet.com /stories/04/07/30/ae_opera002.cfm (1002 words)

	Oct.17, 1996 Arts
		The opera opens in tenth-century Antwerp, on the banks of the Scheldt River, where Elsa of Brabant (sung by soprano Karita Matilla) is being accused by Telramund (baritone Tom Fox) of murdering her brother Gottfried so that she can become queen.
		Out of the boat steps a knight, Lohengrin, who will defend her on one condition: that she never ask his name or where he is from.
		Before the earthquake retrofitting of the opera house, we heard a lot of wailing from those overly sensitive souls who canceled their tickets because they couldn't bear to hear an opera anywhere else but the opera house.
	www.ccsf.edu /Events_Pubs/Guardsman/101796/101796arts.html (1664 words)

	Opera in Focus - "Lohengrin" - Act III
		In the final scene of the opera the mysterious knight stands on the banks of the river Scheldt.
		He reveals that he is one of the consecrated knights of the Holy Grail, and is from the far off mountain Mansalvat.
		It is the mission of these knights to fight for justice wherever it may take them, but their name must never be asked.
	www.operainfocus.com /repertoire/lohengrin.html (108 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: Lively staging makes "Lohengrin" seem speedy
		When you have a 4½-hour opera whose pace and intensity never flag, and audiences are heading off for intermissions saying "Boy, that act went fast," you know two things: The production has a terrific conductor and a great stage director.
		Lohengrin need not be a bore, but he does need a certain gravitas, as the character whose unimpeachable honor and valor make him a true hero.
		Congratulations to Seattle Opera's scenic studios (and you can read all about how the swan was built on a remote-controlled truck at www.seattleopera.org).
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001994422_lohengrin02.html (761 words)

	lohengrin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Written in the mid-19th century, by Richard Wagner, Lohengrin is an opera of medieval allegory and mysticism.
		The opera explores what happens when a society seeks a suitable leader, a person that can galvanize soldiers for an impending war.
		Lohengrin is a designers dream, as it can be set in many time periods and relate to many eras.
	home.comcast.net /~camillebenda/sitepages/lohengri.htm (145 words)

	San Diego Opera: Lohengrin Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Stephanie Sundine was Elsa, Pauline Tinsley the Ortrud, and William Neill the Lohengrin.
		A Lohengrin without a true Heldentenor in the leading part may seem more than a bit odd, but a strong lyric tenor with plenty of stamina can also manage it with a lot of technique and a good deal of prayer.
		Lohengrin takes place in a transitional world, don't you know, halfway between the world of the old gods and the triumph of Christianity.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/lohengrin.stm (945 words)

	Welcome to LA Opera \| LA Opera
		Lohengrin tells her that he must go, and that if he had been able to stay beside her for a year, her brother would have returned.
		As Lohengrin prepares to leave, Ortrud appears and reveals that the swan is actually Gottfried, transformed by her fl magic.
		Lohengrin proclaims him Duke of Brabant, Ortrud falls to the ground, and Elsa dies in her brother’s arms as Lohengrin floats away, drawn by the dove.
	www.losangelesopera.com /learn_more/article_detail.asp?productionid=31&articleid=25 (1123 words)

	Today's Opera News -- Metropolitan Opera Schedule -- AllAboutOpera.com
		The formal opera seria story of an ornate court with betrayals, high treason and redemption is illumined with Handel's unusual psychological insight, which gives all that gorgeous musical ornamentation of trills and thrills its own compelling sense of drama.
		NEARLY 700 opera supporters crowded the grand ballroom of the Waldorf-Astoria this month at a lovefest for Joseph Volpe, the general manager of the Metropolitan Opera who is retiring this season.
		Straddling the line between opera and musical theater, New York City Opera's Lysistrata or The Nude Goddess, which premiered in March, was the perfect vehicle for Aristophanes' bawdy Greek comedy about the Athenian heroine Lysistrata.
	www.allaboutopera.com /news/index.php (4420 words)

	Lohengrin
		He reveals that he is Lohengrin, a knight of the Grail and the son of Parsifal, king of the Grail.
		Lohengrin must return to the world he came from and bids Elsa a sad farewell.
		In some mysterious way, however, Gottfried appears and is declared by Lohengrin, as he departs, to be the new ruler of Brabant.
	www.bayerische.staatsoper.de /c.php/spielplan/v_inhaltsangabe.php?id=48&termin=&l=en&dom=dom1 (710 words)

	At The Opera 21/05/2006: Lohengrin
		Lohengrin steps ashore and asks her if she will marry him if he wins on her behalf.
		Elsa reassures Lohengrin that she still believes in him, though she is secretly beginning to have doubts.
		Before Heinrich, Lohengrin reveals he is one of the Knights of the Holy Grail, and his father was Parsifal.
	www.abc.net.au /classic/opera/stories/s1617452.htm (541 words)

	INKPOT#63 CLASSICAL MUSIC REVIEWS: WAGNER Lohengrin. Domingo/Norman/Solti, et al. (Decca) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		An unknown knight, Lohengrin, arrives in a boat drawn by a swan and promises to fight on behalf of Elsa in a battle for honour and truth.
		In the morning, amidst great excitement, he announces that he is Lohengrin, son of the Grail King Parzival and that as a Knight of the Grail, he has been sent to combat evil and defend virtue.
		Lohengrin leaves in a boat drawn by the dove, after declaring Gottfried the new ruler of Brabant.
	inkpot.com /classical/wlohengrin.html (1767 words)

	AZOpera Richard Wagner Biography
		He began work on an opera Die Hochzeit, and tossed it aside unfinished, then completed a full operatic work Die Feen, which was destined not to be performed until five years after the composer's death.
		Wagner struggled to establish himself in opera in Paris, living on the verge of starvation, from time to time imprisoned for his debts.
		However, Lohengrin, which he considered his greatest effort to date was rejected by Dresden opera and, in anger, Wagner turned to revolution.
	www.evermore.com /azo/c_bios/wagner.php3 (1072 words)

	Review - GHCD 2278-80 Lohengrin
		She was nearing the end of her career at the Met, and the earlier performances of opera with her in the cast are in inferior sound or fragmentary, while the nearly contemporaneous Figaro finds her in poor voice.
		Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, New York/Erich Leinsdorf
		As Lohengrin’s lover, Elsa, Elisabeth Rethburg’s silvery soprano shows some signs of her age; she had debuted at the theatre as Aida in 1923.
	www.guildmusic.com /histori/Reviews/rev2280z.htm (1501 words)

	The Seattle Times: Arts & Entertainment: For many opera fans, it ain't over until the education guy speaks
		The popular Seattle Opera education director has zoomed around the world as a speaker on general musical issues, and a zealot for opera in particular.
		Right now, Wagner's "Lohengrin" is set to open Saturday, and Lorenzo is dashing about the city to do lectures on the myth-based saga of a mysterious knight who must not reveal his name.
		He was a high-schooler when he got to his first "Ring" opera, a 1975 performance of Seattle Opera's "Götterdämmerung" (the last and longest of the four operas).
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/artsentertainment/2001989348_lorenzo27.html (1168 words)

	Lohengrin on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		The real magic is the music; OPERA Lohengrin Royal Opera House.
		LOHENGRIN [Lohengrin], in medieval German story, a knight of the Holy Grail, son of Parzival.
		In its fullest form the story is treated in a German epic poem composed c.1285-1290 and ascribed to Wolfram von Eschenbach by its unknown author.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/L/Lohengri.asp (274 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ben Heppner Sings Lohengrin: Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75 Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan!
		Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75 Durch Gottes Sieg ist jetzt dein Leben mein
		Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75 Weh' nun ist all' unser Glück dahin!
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000003FXX (576 words)

	classical music - andante - it's not wagner's wagner: barrie kosky stages lohengrin at vienna state opera
		Because the opera's counts, nobles and other 10th-century denizens were clad in two-piece suits instead of armor, and the setting was more board room than battlefield, the effect was almost as if the opera was being performed in a concert version.
		After all, a lot of the heroine's decisions are guided by inner vision — and she was spared the sight of some of the more jarring scenery on stage.
		Dark-haired and facially expressive, Isokoski shone in her Vienna debut in the role, with her acting matching a clear voice that was dead-on in pitch and intensity.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=26246 (774 words)

	Amazon.com: Wagner: Lohengrin: Music: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau,Richard Wagner,Rudolf Kempe,Christa Ludwig,Vienna ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		LOHENGRIN is the opera to start listening to if you are new to Wagner.
		Lohengrin is Wagner's most popular opera at the Met, and is often referred to as Wagner's "Italian" opera.
		Wagner called "Lohengrin" a 'romantic opera,' where the god-sent knight is in search of a Utopia: trust solely based on the spontaneity of an immediate impression.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004VVZQ?v=glance (2090 words)

	The New York Times: Search > Topic: OPERA
		The New York City Opera' s annual project, which begins this weekend, offers performances of excerpts from works in progress in free public tryouts....
		On Wednesday evening the Juilliard Opera Center offered the premiere of ''Miss Lonelyhearts,'' composed by Lowell Liebermann to a libretto by J. McClatchy on a commission honoring the centennial of the...
		Handel's early-18th-century career was heavy on operas in Italian intended for the commercial theate...
	query.nytimes.com /search/query?ppds=des&v1=OPERA&fdq=19960101&td=sysdate&sort=newest&ac=OPERA&rt=1,des,org,per,geo (612 words)

	An Unamplified Voice
		Of otherworldly delicacy in sound, his Lohengrin was similarly pure in manner: masculine still, and instinctively righteous when challenged, but free from the torment, envy, and uncertainty of true mortals.
		But as the Lohengrin shows, what Mattila has actually to do is pretty much irrelevant: that she has some framework to channel dramatic energy is the thing.
		Some wags suggested afterward that her association with Opera Theater of St. Louis and that company director's presence on the jury was what got Jolly a "win".
	auv.blogspot.com (4465 words)

	RICHARD WAGNER
		In 1835, Wagner began work on his first major opera "Rienzi", but soon had to flee to Prussia because of oustanding debts he could not pay.
		One of the operas from Wagner's "The Ring" is "Die Walkure" which is about a woman, Sieglinde who shelters a warrior who becomes her lover, Siegmund (who later on turns out to be her brother).
		The opera ends with Wotan stating that only a hero would be able to pass through the fire to rescue her and become her husband.
	www.greatkat.com /54/compose/wagner1.html (372 words)

	OPERA IN STRASBOURG September/October 2001 [PGW] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		During the fortnight of Strasbourg's International Festival of New Music Musica, four operas were given in the city that deserve attention, as does a presentation of Bach's B minor Mass on the heels of the recent dramatisation of his St John Passion by ENO in London.
		Lohengrin - 'opéra en un acte de Salvatore Sciarrino' was conceived by its composer as an opera with action invisible, for one singer/actress who assumes all the characters.
		This slow, silent prologue established a level of anticipation and listening intensity which was sustained through the hour of this opera's traffic upon the stage, a prologue, four scenes and epilogue, given without a break; not all reactions afterwards were as enthusiastically positive as ours.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2001/Oct01/strasbourg1.htm (1694 words)

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