Hans Neuenfels: Lohengrin, Bayreuth 2011

Excerpts from Mark Berry's review on Wagneropera.net:

The orchestra was on fine form indeed, its strings silky and aspiring upwards in the First Act Prelude. (There was actually a minor slip here, but that merely served to highlight the excellence elsewhere.) Andris Nelsons fashioned an account of the score that was largely unobtrusive. There were occasions when his growing mannerism of