Lohengrin
opera by Wagner
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discussed in biography
- In Richard Wagner: Early life
…attend the first performance of Lohengrin at Weimar, given by his friend Franz Liszt on August 28, 1850.
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German Romantic opera
- In opera: Wagner
>Lohengrin (1850). Tannhäuser again displays some characteristics of grand opera (particularly in the revision that Wagner prepared for a performance in Paris in 1861). Lohengrin is less spectacular but is still rooted in folklore and Germanic legend and is imbued with allegorical meaning, as are…
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