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Lohengrin is a character in some German Arthurian literature. The son of Parzival (Percival), he is a knight of the Holy Grail sent in a boat pulle by swans to rescue a maiden who can never ask his identity. His story is a version of the Knight of the Swan legend.

Trivia about lohengrin

  • The swan that pulls this title character's boat is actually Elsa's enchanted brother, Gottfried
  • 1850 work that features the piece heard here
  • Parsifal was his pop(9)
  • 1850 Wagner opera in which you'd hear "Farewell, farewell, my beloved swan"
  • Operas named for Grail Knights include "Parsifal" & this one whose famed prelude is heard here
  • In a Wagner opera, this title knight tells Elsa he'll marry her so long as she never asks his identity
  • This son of Parsifal & knight of the Holy Grail is the subject of an opera by Wagner
  • (Alex wears a helmet at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.) This helmet is a fitting accessory from a production of this Wagner work in which the knight's arrival in a swan boat is one of opera's great entrances
  • In a Richard Wagner opera, this knight in shining armor arrives on a boat drawn by a swan

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