With Lohengrin, Richard Wagner created a work that constantly inspires new interpretations. Wagner's revolutionary music moves between ethereal Grail music and military fanfares, transforming the multi-layered text into an overwhelming synthesis of the arts.
Brabant is in crisis. The duchy is to join a distant war, the duke is dead and the heir to the throne Gottfried - still a child - has disappeared. His sister Elsa is said to have murdered him. Only one thing can help: "A miracle, a miracle!" And it comes in the iconic form of the swan knight Lohengrin. He defends Elsa, but on the condition that she marries him and does not ask about his name and origins. Lohengrin brings the utopian new into society, but the political intrigue causes the new beginning to fail.
Premiere September 16, 2023
Further performances: September 24 and 30, October 3, 15 and 28, November 3 and 30, 2023 and May 31, 2024
