Lohengrin returned to the Met on February 26 for the first time since 2006 in a new production by François Girard. After Robert Wilson’s starkly abstract 1998 production, the Canadian director’s more conventional staging offered a post-apocalyptic vision of Brabant, though lacking castle, swan boat, and sword fight. This Lohengrin translated 19th century Romanticism, with its supernatural component, into a[...]
Despite the Covid-19 crisis, which caused the cancellation of the last two months of the Met’s 2019-2020 season, the company did manage to pull off three of eight scheduled performances […]