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Richard Wagner, Lohengrin, WWV 75

I: Prelude (orchestral)

I: "Hört! Grafen, Edle, Freie von Brabant!"

I: "Seht hin! Sie naht, die hart Beklagte!"

I: "Einsam in trüben Tagen hab ich zu Gott gefleht"

I: "Wer hier im Gotteskampf zu streiten kam für Elsa von Brabant, der trete vor!"

I: "Nun sei bedankt, mein lieber Schwan!"

I: "Nun hört! Euch, Volk und Edlen, mach ich kund"

I: "Nun höret mich und achtet wohl"

II: Introduction (orchestral)

II: "Erhebe dich, Genossin meiner Schmach!"

II: "Was macht dich in so wilder Klage doch vergehn?"

II: "Du wilde Seherin, wie willst du doch geheimnisvoll den Geist mir neu berücken?"

II: "Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen so traurig oft erfüllt"

II: "Elsa! Wer ruft?"

II: "Entweihte Götter!"

II: "Des Königs Wort und Will tu ich euch kund"

II: Procession. "Gesegnet soll sie schreiten"

II: "Zurück, Elsa!"

II: "O König! Trugbetörte Fürsten!"

II: "Welch ein Geheimnis muss der Held bewahren?"

II: "Mein Held, entgegne kühn dem Ungetreuen!"

III: Prelude (orchestral)

III: "Treulich geführt ziehet dahin"

III: "Das süsse Lied verhallt"

III: "Atmest du nicht mit mir die süen Düfte?"

III: "Höchstes Vertraun hast du mir schon zu danken"

III: "Heil, König Heinrich!"

III: "In fernem Land"

III: "Mein lieber Schwan!"

Wagner's Lohengrin

Calixto Bieito (stage director), Matthias Pintscher (conductor) – With René Pape (Heinrich der Vogler), Roberto Alagna (Lohengrin), Vida Miknevičiūtė (Elsa von Brabant)...

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Cast

Calixto Bieito — Stage director

Rebecca Ringst — Set designer

Ingo Krügler — Costumes

Michael Bauer — Lighting

Sarah Derendinger — Video

Bettina Auer — Dramaturgy

Jana Beckmann — Dramaturgy

Program notes

The illustrious Berlin State Opera, led here by Matthias Pintscher, offers up a fairytale voyage beyond the limits of your imagination… Indeed, supernatural elements abound in Wagner's Lohengrin, set in the Flemish region of Antwerp in the 10th century, a faraway land where the boundaries between dreams and reality are blurred. That's what spurred celebrated stage director Calixto Bieito to create two different frames onstage: the magic-filled forest on one side, opposite the courtroom where human-scale drama plays out.

As Bieito explains, fairy tales are not only a learning tool for children—they continue to brim with rich symbolic potential even to our adult eyes, revealing the stakes and limits of artistic narration. The superb performances by Roberto Alagna (Lohengrin), René Pape (Heinrich), and Vida Miknevičiūtė (Elsa) leave us with the same wide-eyed sense of wonder we felt as children: the power of opera, which transforms the stage of the Staatsoper Unter den Linden into a kingdom of our own imagining!

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