Wagner’s Romantic opera demands singing actors who can truly inhabit their parts, and that’s just what we have here. Is it possible for a Knight of the Holy Grail to look more enticing than Peter Hofmann? No wonder Elsa (Eva Marton) falls in love at first sight. Marton’s heroine is innocent, but she is also a passionate, real-life young woman—which is good, because Leonie Rysanek is positively demented as Ortrud, the sorceress who accuses Elsa and Lohengrin of using magic. With James Levine’s superb conducting, the orchestra and chorus are similarly magical.

At the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden, the stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff signs a remarkable production of Wagner's LOHENGRIN, the third of the German composer's main operas. This production stars an incredible cast, including Hans-Peter König, Klaus Florian Vogt, Solveig Kringelborn, Tom Fox and Waltraud Meier, accompanied by the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin under Kent Nagano's baton.

Wagner's Lohengrin is the mythical tale of the mysterious Knight of the Grail, who appears to defend the princess Elsa - wrongly accused of the murder of her brother. Highlights of Wagner's most lyrical score include the famous Wedding March, which accompanies the marriage of Lohengrin and Elsa. Superstar tenor Jonas Kaufmann ("currently the hottest tenor in opera" - The New York Times) makes his role debut in this performance from 2009 and filmed in Munich. He is joined by German soprano Anja Harteros - a former winner of the prestigious Cardiff Singer Of The World competition.

这是一幅展现瓦格纳一生及其作品的宏大画卷，从1848年革命前开始，历经他在瑞士的流亡生涯，到被痴迷于他的巴伐利亚国王路德维希二世拯救，直至在拜罗伊特迎来最终的辉煌。瓦格纳激进的音乐和政治理念、他的德国民族主义，乃至他的反犹主义，都被置于他所处的时代背景中进行呈现。

A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth. Wagner's radical musical and political ideas, his German nationalism and even his anti-Semitism are set in the context of his life and times.

1987年，维尔纳·赫尔佐格在拜罗伊特执导的理查德·瓦格纳歌剧《罗恩格林》。

故事发生在10世纪的安特卫普，埃尔萨被指控谋害她的弟弟戈特弗里德，戈特弗里德是布拉邦特公爵的继承人。一位神秘骑士在天鹅引领下现身，他愿为捍卫埃尔萨的贞洁而战。他要求埃尔萨保证绝不打听他的姓名、出身和过去。他击败了指控埃尔萨的泰拉蒙伯爵，并赢得了埃尔萨的婚约。泰拉蒙的妻子奥特鲁德拥有邪恶法力，她在埃尔萨心中种下了对骑士的怀疑。新婚当晚，埃尔萨忍不住违背承诺，问了禁忌问题，也毁掉了自己的幸福。此刻，骑士必须离开。临行前，他当众表明自己是圣杯骑士罗安格林。他将被奥特鲁德变成天鹅的戈特弗里德从魔法束缚中解救出来，让埃尔萨姐弟得以重逢，而他自己则不得不返回孟沙瓦特的圣杯之城，继续守护格拉尔圣杯。

Actor and writer Stephen Fry explores his passion for the world's most controversial composer - Richard Wagner. But Stephen is Jewish and lost family members in the Holocaust, so can he salvage the music he loves from its dark association with anti-semitism and the Nazis? Shot on location in Germany, Switzerland and Russia, the film includes unique behind-the-scenes access to the Bayreuth Festival, the annual extravaganza of Wagner's music held in the composer's own purpose built theatre. Animated by Stephen Fry's trademark wit and intelligence, and featuring a soundtrack of Wagner's extraordinary music, this is a fantastic introduction to the life and legacy of one of the most important composers ever, and a must-see film for those who already know and love his music.

Ring Cycle part 2, where we learn that two of Wotan's kids are having an incestuous affair, his wife is furious, so Valkyrie Brunnhilde is sent to fix things (ie, kill them). But she lets them escape instead, and oh boy, is Wotan angry now.