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Opera

Romantic opera in three acts
by Richard Wagner
In German with German surtitles

The Duke of Brabant is dead and his daughter Elsa is accused of murdering her brother. Desperate, she dreams of heavenly salvation, which appears in the form of the swan knight Lohengrin. But his help comes on one condition - she must never ask him his name or where he comes from. The early medieval world of Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" is one of upheaval: the old order is challenged by a new one. While Elsa wavers between devotion and doubt, the magical Ortrud schemes to gain power in Brabant and restore the Germanic faith. And Lohengrin? Is he a savior, an instrument of a foreign power or a mediator? What does his ultimate disappearance mean? Roger Vontobel's new production creates a world in which faith, power and resistance are inextricably interwoven; General Music Director Roberto Rizzi Brignoli will express Wagner's then novel soundscapes in a differentiated and rhythmically concise manner. At a time when cultural identities and ideological conflicts are becoming the focus of global debates, "Lohengrin" shows the tragedy of change - and poses fundamental questions about religion, colonization and the domination of nature. We would like to thank the Richard-Wagner-Verband Mannheim Kurpfalz e. V., the Fontana Foundation, the Stiftung Nationaltheater and the Freunde und Förderern des Nationaltheaters e. V. for sponsoring the stage design. This content has been machine translated.