Wolfgang Wagner's swansong: Lohengrin in Prague

By John Johnston, 16 June 2017

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“Aleš Briscein presented a remote otherworldly figure clad in cerulean blue and silver”

Reviewed at National Theatre (Národní divadlo), Prague on 14 June 2017

Wagner, Lohengrin

Prague National Theatre Opera

Constantin Trinks, Conductor

Zbyněk Müller, Conductor

Katharina Wagner, Director

Aleš Briscein, Lohengrin

Eliška Weissová, Ortrud

Peter Mikulás, Heinrich der Vogler

Jiří Sulženko, Heinrich der Vogler

Dana Burešová, Elsa von Brabant

Ólafur Sigurdarson, Friedrich von Telramund

Prague National Theatre Orchestra

Prague National Theatre Chorus

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John Johnston

John Johnston was a contributor to Bachtrack 2017-19. John was a true gentleman and lifelong opera "nut" who frequently travelled across Europe to catch performances, making regular pilgrimages to the Bayreuth Festival among others. His supreme knowledge and appreciation of voices meant he took to reviewing like the proverbial duck to water. We enjoyed his style and his insatiable appetite for catching rare operas and new productions wherever he could.