Lohengrin Wagner
Bayerische Staatsoper
Munich, Germany

CANADIANS: Zachery Rioux (Brabantische Edle)

Text is from the Bayerische Staatsoper website.

Hungarian film and theatre director Kornél Mundruczó, whose productions are shown at acclaimed festivals and theatres around the world, has also worked in opera for some years now. His production of The Makropulos Affair (2016) at the Vlaamse Opera was nominated for the International Opera Awards, and last year he staged the world premiere of Péter Eötvös’ opera Sleepless at Berlin’s Staatsoper Unter den Linden. He is also the founder and director of the independent theatre company, Proton Theater. With his team (including set designer Monika Pormale and costume designer Ania Axer), he now makes his debut at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Conductor François-Xavier Roth, renowned for both historically informed performance practice and for unusual programme combinations, and regularly invited by top orchestras, raises his baton for the first time in an opera production at the BSO. Klaus Florian Vogt sings the title role, and  Johanni van Oostrum  embodies Elsa.

• Conductor
  Sebastian Weigle
• Production
  Kornél Mundruczó
• Production Assistant
  Marcos Darbyshire
• Set Design
  Monika Pormale
• Costume Design
  Anna Axer Fijalkowska
• Lighting
  Felice Ross
• Dramaturgy
  Kata WéberMalte Krasting
• Choruses
  Christoph Heil

• Heinrich der Vogler
  Ryan Speedo Green
• Lohengrin
  Benjamin Bruns
• Elsa von Brabant
  Rachel Willis-Sørensen
• Friedrich von Telramund
  Martin Gantner
• Ortrud
  Anja Kampe
• Heerrufer des Königs
  Andrè Schuen
• Brabantische Edle
  Zachary RiouxAleksey KursanovThomas MolePaweł Horodyski
• 4 Edelknaben
  Solist(en) des Tölzer Knabenchors

• Bayerisches Staatsorchester
• Bayerischer Staatsopernchor und Extrachor der Bayerischen Staatsoper