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Black and White: Oslo’s new production of Lohengrin

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“Elena Zhidkova’s Ortrud went for all-out, magnificent evil”
Reviewed at Oslo Opera House, Main Stage, Oslo on 8 March 2015
Wagner, Lohengrin
Norwegian National Opera
John Fiore, Conductor
Johannes Erath, Director
Kaspar Glarner, Set Designer
Christian Lacroix, Costume Designer
Paul Groves, Lohengrin
Nina Gravrok, Elsa von Brabant
Magne Fremmerlid, Heinrich der Vogler
Ole Jørgen Kristiansen, Friedrich von Telramund
Elena Zhidkova, Ortrud
Norwegian National Opera Orchestra
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