Wagner: Lohengrin ***
Royal Opera, 7th June 2018
You wait ages for a swan, then a flock descends. Swiftly following the debut of Liam Scarlett’s Swan Lake, here glides in David Alden’s new staging of Wagner’s Lohengrin, the first at Covent Garden since Elijah Moshinsky’s in 1977, a traditional pageant last revived in 2009. Alden’s drab production rejects the medieval setting for a 1930s dystopia with distinct Third Reich overtones, but under Andris Nelsons’ inspired conducting, there are musical compensations.
Jennifer Davis (Elsa) and Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin)
© ROH | Clive Barda
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