Lohengrin

  

Opera | Bayreuther Festspiele, Germany | 2010

Co-design

Director: Hans Neuenfels

Stage design and costumes: Reinhard von der Thannen

Stage co-design: Bart Wigger

Costume co-design: Wiebke Schlüter and Caroline Quirmbach

Lighting design: Franck Evin

This Lohengrin experiment is located in a modern day laboratory in which the choir will transform itself on stage; from laboratory rats they turn more and more into humans. White leather walls, aluminum flooring and visible fluorescent tubes create a hypothermic atmosphere. Lohengrins swan appears in different dramaturgic settings, physiognomies and materials. Lohengrins and Elsas bridal chamber is designed far from intimate; their struggle for compassion is exhibited thoroughly...

Photos: E. Nawrath | Bayreuther Festspiele