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A scene from
Richard Wagner
's opera
Lohengrin
, as performed at its London première in 1875. The story of the
eponymous
character is taken from medieval German romances, including a secondary plot in
Wolfram von Eschenbach
's
Parzival
and the main plot of its sequel,
Lohengrin
, written by a different author, and the epic of
Garin le Loherain
which inspired it. It is part of the
Knight of the Swan
tradition. Several excerpts have become famous, most notably "Treulich geführt" from Act III, Scene 1, commonly known as "
Here Comes the Bride
".
Image credit: Arthur Thiele,
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