Bayreuth Festival
Bayreuth, Germany
Opera by Richard Wagner
In 2018, Yuval Sharon became the first American director to mount a production at the Bayreuth Festival, founded by Wagner in 1876. Sharon’s landmark 2018 production of Lohengrin returns in 2019, with stage design and costumes by Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy and lighting by Reinhard Traub.
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Eberhard Friedrich, choral conductor
Georg Zeppenfeld, Heinrich der Vogler
Klaus Florian Vogt/Piotr Beczała, Lohengrin
Camilla Nylund/Annette Dasch/Anna Netrebko, Elsa von Brabant
Tomasz Konieczny, Friedrich von Telramund
Elena Pankratova, Ortrud
Egils Silins, Der Heerrufer des Königs
Michael Gniffke, First Elder
Tansel Akzeybek, Second Elder
Marek Reichert, Third Elder
Timo Riihonen, Fourth Elder