A revival of David Alden’s war-torn staging of Wagner’s early opera finds disturbing new resonance with current events; in the pit Jakub Hrůša has an unerring sense of the work’s structure It is only ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Eun Sun Kim during a sound check at Saint Joseph's Arts Society, 2025. (Kristen Loken) San Francisco Opera Music Director Eun Sun ...

Wagner's Lohengrin transforms historical events from the tenth century into a mythic romance exploring the limitations of faith and love. At the center is Elsa, the princess of Brabant, who stands ...

Klaus Florian Vogt's Lohengrin tries to console bride Elsa (Jennifer Davis) as Ortrud (Christine Goerke) throws a spanner in the works Davis holds her own here, too, pushing the question with perfect ...

San Francisco Opera has announced the release of Eun Sun Kim: A Journey Into Lohengrin, an hour-long film by San Francisco Opera and Lumahai Productions, the partners behind the Company’s ...

The last time I saw the piece, at Bayreuth two years ago, the huge stage was peopled with multi-coloured chorus-sized rats intended, according to the director, to “disrupt the smooth heraldic surface ...

Some time next fall RCA Victor will send forth into a curious and possibly skeptical music world a new recording of Wagner’s opera Lohengrin. It will be a Lohengrin like none other, with a passage in ...

The San Francisco Opera’s new production of “Lohengrin” is worth celebrating on at least two counts. First, it offers a shimmering, sumptuous performance of one of Richard Wagner’s most remarkable ...

The company debut of tenor Ben Heppner is like the nerve racking appearance of “a great veteran baseball pitcher” By Todd McCarthy READ MORE THR REVIEWS Women dominate the men in this under-achieving ...

I must have listened to the prelude of Wagner’s Lohengrin 20 times before hearing it live. Its shimmering violins pour out music, in Wagner’s words, “like streams of gold, ravishing the senses of the ...

Lohengrin is the most mistily romantic of Wagner’s mature operas but you would never have guessed it from the way that Antony McDonald has directed and designed it for this new Welsh National Opera ...