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a knight to remember

In honor of the 158th anniversary of the premiere of Lohengrin, Unnatural Acts of Opera presents a performance of the Wagnerian work from Vienna in 1965 under the baton of Dr. Karl Böhm.

Lohengrin, Act 1

11 comments

  • jatm2063 says:

    Oh goody. I like Lohengrin.

  • High C's @ 4:20 says:

    Remember please that after oral surgery one shouldnt suck on anything for a while… ;)

  • The Vicar of John Wakefield says:

    Not a patch on the great days of Walter Widdop and Joan Cross!

  • Famous Quickly says:

    I could sing Elss *tomorrow*- for my birthday! It’s a question of color and tessitura.

  • Hans Lick says:

    You might list the cast for us …

  • HL/ aka Emily Littella says:

    Oh, you did, under Unnatural Acts!

    Never mind.

  • Eugene says:

    5. Elsa-Claire Watson
    Lohengrin-Jess Thomas
    Koenig Heinrich-Martti Talvela
    Ortrud-Christa Ludwig
    Telramund-Walter Berry
    Der HeeruferEberhard Waechter
    4 Edle-Kurt Equiluz, Fritz Spielbauer,Herbert
    Lackner, Ljubomir Pantscheff
    Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper
    May 16, 1965 Dirigent-Karl Boehm

  • Sanford says:

    WAIT! I wasn’t ready for the French festival to end!

  • Willym says:

    Like Sanford I was looking forward to more French Grand but as always La Cieca gives us another treasure. So we laud and magnify her name … oh sorry that’s the Litany of the Blessed Virgin. And Blessed she may be but Virgin… well… ctrl+alt+delete.

  • Cocky Kurwenal says:

    Lohengrin is an extremely logical continuation of the French Grand Opera festival, since Wagner came straight out of that tradition. Lohengrin still owes rather a lot to the likes of Meyerbeer and Auber.