Lohengrin

  • 2011/2012 Season
  • [New Production]
    Richard Wagner : Lohengrin
    Opera in 3 Acts
    Sung in German with Japanese Supertitles
  • OPERA HOUSE
  • PERFORMANCES

    2012
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Years in the making, this new production of Richard Wagner's Lohengrin will be staged in 2012, which marks 15 years since the inaugural series of operas performed when the NNTT first opened its doors. Back then in 1997, the NNTT was staging a new production by the late Wolfgang Wagner, the grandson of the composer himself. At the time, Wolfgang Wagner was director of the Bayreuther Festspiele, which is dedicated solely to the performance of Wagner operas. Richard Wagner called this opera "the saddest of my creations". The younger Wagner's production featured an imposing set, and was based on a sophisticated and orthodox interpretation. The person in charge of this new production is Matthias von Stegmann, a man who worked for more than 15 years as an assistant to such directors as Wolfgang Wagner and Alfred Kirchner at the Bayreuth Festival Theatre. Stegmann made his debut as a full-fledged opera director with the 2007 production of Der fliegende Holländer at the NNTT. rosalie, the artist in charge of stage design and costume design, also worked at the Bayreuther Festspiele. We look forward with great anticipation to this collaborative effort between the two. In the title role will be Klaus Florian Vogt, whose interpretation of Lohengrin is one of the best of any singer today. The cast also includes Ricarda Merbeth among several of the world's finest Wagnerian singers. Wielding the baton will be conductor Peter Schneider, renowned worldwide as one of the foremost conductors of German opera. On the eve of the bicentenary of Wagner's birth in 2013, we invite you to experience the new NNTT production of Lohengrin.

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