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The Vienna State Opera presents a Wagner classic in a production by the duo Jossi Wieler and Sergio Morabito, who turn Lohengrin into a thriller with a twist. The conductor is Christian Thielemann, who more than lives up to his reputation as a Wagner expert par excellence. On stage, David Butt Philip as the eponymous Lohengrin is a "heroic tenor with radiance and stamina" (Kleine Zeitung), while Malin Byström portrays Elsa, who is perhaps not as innocent as the libretto suggests, and convinces with "dramatic furor" (Der Standard).
Anja Kampe sings her Ortrut "beautifully and yet so expressively, with so much diction" (Kurier) and Martin Gantner's Telramund is "flawless in his precision" (News). / "Christian Thielemann is really in a class of his own when it comes to Wagner" (DerStandard) / "The choirs were a stunner, and the orchestra proved its outstanding quality in harmony with the great Wagnerian Thielemann" (Salzburger Nachrichten)