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Key facts
- Librettist
- Richard Wagner
- Language
- German
- Based on
- Medieval German Romance
- Premiere
- 28 August 1850 ( 1850-08-28 ) , Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar
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Encyclopedic overview
Lohengrin ( pronounced [ˈloːənˌɡʁiːn] in German), WWV 75, is a Romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach, and its sequel Lohengrin, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain. It is part of the Knight of the Swan legend.
King Ludwig II of Bavaria, whose patronage later gave Wagner the means not only to complete the epic cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen but also to build the monumental Bayreuth Festspielhaus upon which to stage it, named his own Neuschwanstein Castle after the Swan Knight.
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