Credit: Arthur Thiele, Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News
A scene from Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin, as performed at its London première in 1875. The story, part of the Knight of the Swan tradition, is taken from medieval German romances, including a secondary plot in Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and the main plot of its sequel, Lohengrin, and the epic of Garin le Loherain which inspired it. The opera was first performed on 28 August 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar conducted by Franz Liszt. Several excerpts have become famous, most notably "Treulich geführt" from act 3, scene 1, commonly known as "Here Comes the Bride".