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Close Encounters of the Wagnerian Kind

Close Encounters of the Wagnerian Kind

François Girard directs Lohengrin in New York (****)

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Mar 24, 2023
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Tamara Wilson (Elsa), Pjotr Beczala (Lohengrin) & Günther Groissböck (Heinrich) © Marty Sohl

Author : Johan Uytterschaut

I partially remembered François Girard’s 10 year old production of Parsifal. The images he used back then somehow popped up when I heard he was to produce the new Lohengrin in New York. Only by association with the name “Girard”? Or was…

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