Radio Broadcast of Wagner's Lohengrin


photo by Felix Sanchez

 

Grand Guarantors

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene M. Isenberg
Albert and Anne Chao /
   Ting Tsung and Wei Fong Chao Foundation

This production is supported in party by a generous gift from the Estate of Betty Kalmanach.

Co-production between Houston Grand Opera and Geneva Opera

 

November 6, 2010 at noon
WFMT or KUHF- 88.7FM

Sung in German

One secret protects one great love in Wagner’s mystical romantic opera. Celebrated Wagnerian tenor Simon O’Neill makes his Houston Grand Opera debut as the knight Lohengrin, whose pure love is threatened by common human greed. Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka sings the misguided Elsa, bewitched into betraying the very one she loves. Soprano Christine Goerke is the sorceress Ortrud and Richard Paul Fink plays her husband Frederick of Telramund, who will stop at nothing to gain the throne. Daniel Slater directs this grand-scale production, conducted by HGO Music Director Patrick Summers.

"Visual poetry." - Financial Times 

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

Lohengrin Synopsis

Colin Ure's Podcast Guide to Lohengrin (mp3)

Lohengrin and Elsa discuss the conditions of their agreement (m4v)

Ortrud and Telramund plot Elsa's demise (m4v)

Elsa calls her hero (m4v)

Lohengrin reveals his idenity (m4v)

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Simon O'Neill*
Lohengrin

Adrianne Pieczonka*
Elsa of Brabant

Günther Groissböck*
King Henry the Fowler

Richard Paul Fink**
Frederick of Telramund

Christine Goerke
Ortrud

Ryan McKinny**
King's Herald

Rutger Heijermans*,
Jack Malone*

Gottfreid

Brendan Tuohy***
Noble

Octavio Moreno***
Noble

Michael Sumuel
Noble

Adam Cioffari***
Noble

Houston Grand Opera
Orchestra and
Chorus

Patrick Summers
Conductor

Daniel Slater*
Production Stage Director

Leah Hausman*
Associate Director (Movement)

Robert Innes Hopkins*
Set and Costume Designer

Simon Mills*
Lighting Designer

Brian Byrnes
Fight Director

Richard Bado
Chorus Master

* Houston Grand Opera debut
** Former Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist
*** Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist

 

 

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