Wagner’s sixth opera, “Lohengrin,” tells the medieval legend of the Knight of the Swan: the knight Lohengrin is sent to protect Duchess Elsa of Brabant, who has been unjustly accused of murder.

What are heroes made of and why do our societies need them so badly? At the Staatsoper Stuttgart, stage director Árpád Schilling tries to answer this mythological, political and existential question, ...

Lohengrin is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the Lohengin is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of ...

In some cases, the inflammatory, Nazi-associated term has been changed out of sensitivity. What do we lose when that happens? By Zachary Woolfe There are some 10,000 words in the libretto of Wagner’s ...

When Duke Gottfried, the child-heir to Brabant, goes missing, his sister Elsa is accused of his murder by her guardian Telramund and his wife Ortrud. In her defence, she calls up a knight from her ...