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Andreas Homoki’s Lohengrin in Lederhosen lacks mystique in Vienna

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Reviewed at Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna on 5 September 2016
Wagner, Lohengrin
Vienna State Opera
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Conductor
Andreas Homoki, Director
Wolfgang Gussmann, Set Designer
Stefan Vinke, Lohengrin
Petra Lang, Ortrud
Günther Groissböck, Heinrich der Vogler
Tomasz Konieczny, Friedrich von Telramund
Ricarda Merbeth, Elsa von Brabant
Concert Association Vienna State Opera Chorus
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