Lohengrin - Immortal Tragedy

These are two photos from performances of my troupe's musical on You Higuri's boys love manga Ludwig II., basing on the life of Bavaria's dream king. At the age of 16, Ludwig fell in love with opera and most of all with Lohengrin, who impersonates his desire for a pure and noble world he cannot find in his own. Lohengrin becomes the anagram for Ludwig's growing madness - he lets himself be seduced by the white knight and leaves the painful reality of a young and misunderstood king behind, as much as his lover, Richard Hornig, who desperately tries to keep Ludwig's last ties to the world and his lover alive.

That left me to play the part of Lohengrin, the malicious seducer, of a fairy tale lover, promising all dreams coming true, but instead pulling you down into a maelstrom of desperation. I'm playing decadence, the body of madness.
Damn, I love to act such characters. I just watched a video of a performance from last year.

These photos are from the opera scene, in which Ludwig watches a performance of Wagner's 'Lohengrin' and encounters Lohengrin himself as the face of his beginning madness for the first time.
Behind me, you see the giant wings of his swan.




(me) as Lohengrin
You Higuri's Ludwig II.







It's the eternal sadness of the opera that pulls you in. A mirror to show you the desperation in your own heart, the grandness, the immortal tragedy.