17/12/11 - Free Broadcast: Lohengrin: Franz Völker, Maria Müller, etc Recorded 1942
By The WagnerianSaturday, 17 December 2011
5:18:00 am
Muller/Volker Bayreuth 1936
Lohengrin: Franz Völker, Elsa von Brabant: Maria Müller, Heinrich der Vogler: Ludwig Hofmann, Friedrich von Telramund: Jaro Prohaska, Ortrud: Margarete Klose, Heerrufer des Königs: Walter Grossmann.Chor der Staatsoper Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Leitung: Robert Heger, 1942. (3 hrs., 30 min.)
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