James Levine conducts the Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra in this 1986 production of Richard Wagner's opera about Lohengrin, who gets caught up in a dangerous political struggle between Germanics and Hungarians. Produced by August Everding, the performance stars tenor Peter Hofmann as reluctant king Lohengrin, Eva Marton as his love interest Elsa, Leif Roar as Count Telramund and Leonie Rysanek as Ortrud.