Mostrar mensagens com a etiqueta Lohengrin. Mostrar todas as mensagens
Mostrar mensagens com a etiqueta Lohengrin. Mostrar todas as mensagens

segunda-feira, 1 de setembro de 2014

Um pouco de Lohengrin ....



Assim, à maneira antiga...

Franz Völker et al., "Mein lieber Schwan!" (Finale), Lohengrin, Act 3 (Live, Bayreuth, 1936)

sexta-feira, 6 de setembro de 2013

segunda-feira, 7 de janeiro de 2013

Elsa Von Brabant, figura impressionante de Lohengrin

Eis um belo artigo sobre a figura de Elsa Von Brabant, da ópera Lohengrin.

Elsa’s Reason


On Beliefs and Motives in Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin

ILIAS CHRISSOCHOIDIS and STEFFEN HUCK

(University College London / ELSE)     «Once Wagner’s most popular opera, Lohengrin has suffered scholarly neglect in the postwar

period. This essay reengages with the work from the novel perspective of game theory

analysis. Centering on Elsa’s breach of the Frageverbot, it offers a rigorous epistemological

study of the opera’s main characters. Against traditional interpretations of the heroine’s fatal

decision, we propose a complex and psychologically more satisfactory account. Elsa asks the

forbidden question because she needs to confirm Lohengrin’s belief in her innocence, a belief

that Ortrud successfully eroded in Act II. This novel interpretation reveals Elsa as a rational

individual, upgrades the dramatic significance of the Act I combat scene, and signals a

hermeneutic return to the heart of opera criticism, the drama itself....»   Continuem a leitura em: http://else.econ.ucl.ac.uk/papers/uploaded/375.pdf

sábado, 3 de março de 2012

Ilustrações de Wagner: Ferdinand Leeke

    
Ferdinand Leeke (1859-1923) - Elsa Von Brabant e Lohengrin e Elsa von Brabant,  Lohengrin
F. Leeke nasceu em Burg, perto de Magdeburg, em 1859. Estudou na Academia de Munique com Johann Herterich (1843-1905), considerado um notável pintor histórico e de género. Cerca de 1889 Leeke foi contratado por Siegfried Wagner, de filho de Richard Wagner, para pintar uma série de trabalhos sob temas das óperas de R. Wagner.

sexta-feira, 10 de fevereiro de 2012

Intérpretes wagnerianos



Cena final II Acto the Metropolitan Opera, James
LevineEva Marton (Elsa),Leonie Rysanek (Ortrud),Peter Hofmann
(Lohengrin),Leif roar (Friedrich). Que casting!!!