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Bridal Chorus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The " Bridal Chorus " " Treulich geführt ", from the opera Lohengrin , by German composer Richard Wagner, is the standard march played for the bride's entrance at many formal weddings throughout...
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Elsa, the heroine in Wagner’s Lohengrin, is accused of fratricide and trysting with an illicit lover by her antagonists, Telramund and his sorceress wife Ortrud. These two conspire in a plot as nefarious as that of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
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In the opera, however, the chorus is sung after the ceremony by the women of the wedding party, as they accompany Elsa, the heroine and Lohengrin's new wife, to the bridal chamber.
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Jul 15, 2009 ... After her champion Lohengrin mysteriously appears, ... will answer a favorite question of opera fans: what would it be like if heroine X and ...
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Lohengrin, by The Metropolitan Opera, ... The drawn-out musical dialogues in the second and third acts, between villain and villainess, villainess and heroine, hero and heroine, etc., demonstrated that while the singers were certainly sturdy and competent, they didn't have the fire necessary to set Wagner's music alight.
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Lohengrin might be called the definitive treatment of the theme; but we mustnât forget, later, the doomed love between the god-fathered heroine Brünnhilde and the human hero Siegfried. (Admittedly, Siegfried is semi-divine by ancestry;
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