Lohengrin: Performance History

Cast:

• Lohengrin : Carl Beck
• Elsa : Rosa Agathe von Milde
• Ortrud : Fastlinger
• Telramund : Feodor von Milde
• König Heinrich : Höfer
• Heerrufer des Königs : August Pätsch
• Herzog Gottfried : Hellstedt

First performance in:

• Poland: 31 Oct 1854, Wroclaw
• Latvia: 5 Feb 1855, Riga
• Czech Republic: 23 Feb 1856, Prague
• Austria: 19 Aug 1858, Vienna
• Netherlands: 19 Nov 1862, Rotterdam
• Hungary: 1 Dec 1866, Budapest
• Russia: 16 Oct 1868, St. Petersburg [1853 Königsberg]
• Belgium: 23 Mar 1870, Brussels
• Denmark: 30 Apr 1870, Copenhagen
• United States: 3 Apr 1871, New York (Stadt Theater)
• Italy: 1 Nov 1871, Bologna [first Wagner opera performed in Italy]
• Sweden: 22 Jan 1874, Stockholm
• United Kingdom: 8 May 1875, London (Covent Garden)
• Ireland: 11 Oct 1875, Dublin
• Switzerland: 8 Dec 1876, Basle [concert 13 Mar 1874 Zurich]
• Belarus: 21 Apr 1877, Lvov
• France: 21 Mar 1881, Nice
• Spain: 25 Mar 1881, Madrid
• Portugal: 14 Mar 1883, Lisbon
• Estonia: 15 Mar 1883, Tallinn
• Argentina: 17 Jul 1883, Buenos Aires
• Brazil: 19 Sep 1883, Rio de Janeiro
• Norway: 2 Dec 1885, Oslo
• Canada: 7 Jan 1888, Montreal
• Chile: Dec 1889, Santiago
• Mexico: 8 Nov 1890, Mexico
• Croatia: 28 Jun 1893, Zagreb
• Romania: Dec 1893, Bucharest
• Malta: 1896
• Egypt: Jan 1897, Alexandria
• Slovenia: 19 Jan 1899, Ljubljana
• Finland: 2 May 1900, Helsinki
• Greece: 1902, Corfu
• South Africa: 1905, Johannesburg
• Australia: 30 Mar 1907, Melbourne
• Ukraine: 1925, Kharkov
• Lithuania: 3 Feb 1926, Kaunas
• Bulgaria: 5 Sep 1934, Sofia

• Bayreuth Festspielhaus: 1894
• Metropolitan Opera: 7 Nov 1883 (360 performances in 65 seasons through 1975-76; first and most frequently performed of Wagner's operas)
• San Francisco Opera: 14 Sep 1931 (38 performances in 11 seasons through 1997-98, most recently 12 Oct 1996)