Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at first sight. Marton’s heroine is innocent, but she is also a passionate, real-life young woman—which is good, because Leonie Rysanek is positively demented as Ortrud, the sorceress who accuses Elsa and Lohengrin of using magic. With James Levine’s superb conducting, the orchestra and chorus are similarly magical.
Peter Hofmann
as Lohengrin
Éva Marton
as Elsa
Leonie Rysanek
as Ortrud
Leif Roar
as Telramund
Anthony Raffell
as The King's Herald
John Macurdy
as King Henry
Charles Anthony
as First noble
John Gilmore
as Second noble
John Darrenkamp
as Third noble
Richard Vernon
as Fourth noble
Christian Collins
as Gottfried
MET Orchestra
as
