The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera

Huge bars of light, floating down from the flies. Singers almost like statues, their gestures shifting at a glacial pace. When Robert Wilson’s slow, spare, luminous production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” opened at the Metropolitan Opera in 1998, it was a shocking break with the house’s prevailing…

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