Lohengrin

…attend the first performance of Lohengrin at Weimar, given by his friend Franz Liszt on August 28, 1850.

>Lohengrin (1850). Tannhäuser again displays some characteristics of grand opera (particularly in the revision that Wagner prepared for a performance in Paris in 1861). Lohengrin is less spectacular but is still rooted in folklore and Germanic legend and is imbued with allegorical meaning, as are…

…Richard Wagner for his opera Lohengrin (first performed on Aug. 28, 1850, at Weimar, Ger.).