The Deutsche Oper Berlin is dedicating its April 20 performance of “Lohengrin” to the late Peter Seiffert.

Seiffert died on April 14 at the age of 71.

In an obituary from the Deutsche Oper Berlin, the company said, “‘Im fernen Land, unnahbar euren Schritten’ – for anyone who had the good fortune to hear Peter Seiffert sing the role of Lohengrin, these words from the Grail Lay will always be indelibly associated with the memory of his radiant tenor voice. His first performance of the role of the swan knight here at his home company on 23 June 1990 marked not only the international breakthrough in the career of the then 36-year-old, but also the great turning point in his development as an artist: the gradual departure from the lyric tenor repertoire and the turn to the great heroic roles, especially in the operas of Richard Wagner, with which Peter Seiffert was to become one of the greatest singers of his generation for three decades.”

Attilio Glaser, Flurina Stucki, Martin Gantner, Miina-Liisa Värelä, and Dean Murphy will star in the April 20 performance of Lohengrin.

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