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Title: Wagner: Lohengrin
Condition: New
Format: Blu-ray
EAN: 0809478070269
Release Date: 26/05/2009
Description: With powerful conviction, Nikolaus Lehnhoff interprets Wagner's Lohengrin as the dramatic struggle of masculine and feminine, revenge and compassion. Powerfully acted, almost like a Strindberg play, and musically of the highest order, this Lohengrin from the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden will be a benchmark production for decades. With his extraordinarily transparent interpretation of the title role, Klaus Florian Vogt leads an inspired cast to visionary realms that are rarely touched, let alone captured on High Definition film and in pure surround sound. The monumental sets by Stephan Braunfels and Kent Nagano's sublimely well balanced musical interpretation complete a deeply moving total theatre experience.

Press Reviews
"Whoever believes to already know all nuances of Lohengrin should go to Baden-Baden: soloists, chorus and orchestra are brilliant - and the production leaves barbed afterthoughts in your mind...There has not been a Lohengrin like Klaus Florian Vogt, the young tenor from Hamburg, for many years...his voice is pure, clean, whiter than snow. Not of this world. Ideal for this role." (Frankfurter Algemeine)
"Thomas Grimm gets his cameras in close, leaving the singers to track reactions to solo utterances but missing some crucial interplay. Within a natural sound spectrum, some tweaking has been done to pull out solo lines in ensemble, but the emotions of Lehnhoff's vision ring true and will give pleasure." (Gramophone)

Cast
Klaus Florian Vogt (Lohengrin)
Solveig Kringelborn (Elsa)
Hans-Peter König (Vogler)
Waltraud Meier (Ortrud)
Tom Fox (Telramund)
Roman Trekel (King's Herald)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester; Kent Nagano
Production
Company: Baden-Baden Festspielhaus
Stage Director: Nikolaus Lehnhoff



Disc Information
Catalogue Number: OABD7026D
Date of Performance: 2006
Running Time: 279 minutes
Sound: 2.0 PCM & 5.1 DTS
Aspect Ratio: 1080i High Definition / 16:9
Subtitles: EN, FR, DE, ES, IT
Label: Opus Arte
Studio: Opus Arte
Language: German
Subtitle Language: Dutch, Spanish, English, French, Italian
Director: Lenhoff
Actor: Wagner, Vogt, Kringelborn, Meier, Nagano
Rating: MPAA Not Rated
No Of Discs: 2
Run Time: 4 hours and 39 minutes
Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...)
Release Year: 2009

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