Festspielhaus Baden-Baden: Wagner’s Lohengrin

Joana Mallwitz conducts the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Live signal available from the Easter Festival in Baden-Baden.

Richard Wagner’s operas of redemption repeatedly invite new interpretations. Joana Mallwitz engaged intensively with the composer’s work during her tenure as General Music Director in Nuremberg. Johannes Erath, a director and musician, will stage Lohengrin in Baden-Baden. He began his directing career as an assistant to Willy Decker, worked among other places at the Semperoper in Dresden, and has been awarded the Götz Friedrich Prize and the Austrian Music Theatre Prize (Österreichischer Musiktheaterpreis).

Genre Opera
Recording location Festspielhaus Baden-Baden
Duration 180'
Video format HD
Production Company EuroArts Music, SWR
TV Director Nele Münchmeyer
Distribution TV EuroArts Music International
Distribution VOD / SVOD EuroArts Music International
English title of music work Richard Wagner: Lohengrin
Orchestra / Band Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Conductor Joana Mallwitz
Soloists Piotr Beczała (Lohengrin), Rachel Willis-Sørensen (Elsa von Brabant), Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Ortrud), Wolfgang Koch (Telramund), Kwangchul Youn (König Heinrich), and more
Stage Director Johannes Erath
Costumes Gesine Völlm