Bayreuth Festival
Bayreuth, Germany
Opera by Richard Wagner
In 2018, Yuval Sharon became the first American director to mount a production at the Bayreuth Festival, founded by Wagner in 1876. Sharon’s landmark 2018 production of Lohengrin returns in 2022, with stage design and costumes by Neo Rauch and Rosa Loy and lighting by Reinhard Traub.
Christian Thielemann, conductor
Klaus Florian Vogt, Lohengrin 
Camilla Nylund, Elsa
Petra Lang, Ortrud 
Martin Gantner, Friedrich 
Georg Zeppenfeld, King Heinrich 
Derek Welton, The King's Herald
Michael Gniffke, First Nobelman 
Tansel Akzeybek, Second Nobelman
Raimund Nolte, Third Nobelman
Jens-Erik Aasbø, Fourth Nobelman