Lohengrin | Richard Wagner | Opera 2022

The romantic opera Lohengrin, which premiered in 1871 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, is the country’s first fulminating contact with the dramaturgy and music of Richard Wagner. In the opera, considered the last of Wagner’s early works and inspired by the German epic poem Parzival by Wolfram von Eschenbach, the story runs on two parallel tracks, myth and history, and the music reflects this duplicity: the vitreous sounds of the beginning the melancholy of Lohengrin’s song, the evocation of the distant “inaccessible” land of Montsalvat where the chalice of the Holy Grail is kept, merge with the direct references to a specific historical epoch.