Lohengrin Opera Posters & Prints
for the music, art, and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and decor for office or home.

Lohengrin opera posters and prints illustrate a twelfth-century German legend whose theme is of the Swan Knight - a rescuer who arrives in a swan-drawn boat to serve a distressed maiden with his only demand being that she must never ask his identity.

Wagner's opera Lohengrin is based on Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table. The main characters include Lohengrin, son of Parzival as the knight who wished to remain unknown, and Elsa who has been falsely accused of murdering her brother Godfrey by Count Telramund and his wife Ortrud. Lohengrin defends Elsa's honor, is forced into defending himself in turn killing Telramund, and releases Godfrey from his death form, a dove.

Almost everyone knows one piece from Wagner's Lohengrin - The Bridal Chorus, or “Here Comes the Bride”.

Lohengrin was first performed in Weimar, Germany on August 28, 1850. The date was chosen by the conductor (and Wagner's father-in-law) Franz Liszt, to honor the birth date Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Weimar's most famous citizen.

Lohengrin Arrives in a Boat Drawn by a Swan, (Elsa's Brother Godfrey), Giclee Print

Elsa, mein Weib!
Du süwse, reine Braut!
Ob glücklich du,
das sei mir jetzt vertraut!

Scene from Lohengrin
Art Print

Scene from Lohengrin - Lohengrin slays Telramund
Art Print

Scene from Lohengrin, Art Print

Mein held, mein Retter! Nimm mich hin!

Lohengrin and the Dove of the Holy Grail Who Will Tow His Boat (Replacing the Swan) to Monsalvat, Giclee Print

Scene from Lohengrin
Lohegrin Frees Godfrey of Brabant, Art Print

Scene from Lohengrin,
Art Print

The First Performance of Lohengrin (Paris), from Le Petit Journal, 3rd October 1891, Giclee Print

Portrait of Richard Wagner Giclee Print

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