The lyrics we know as "Here Comes the Bride" are very different from those in Lohengrin. There is a wedding march, but it at the end of Act I; "Here..." is the first scene of Act II. It is an epithalamion (around the bed)-- the bride and groom are being escorted to bed and disrobed by attendants. The original would probably be considered in bad taste at most weddings.
Wagner's widow Cosima believed that his last opera, Parsifal, a kind of quasi-religious thingy, was to be performed only at his own theater at Bayreuth, Germany (as he did himself). In 1903, 21 years after the first performance, she brought a big law suit against the Metropolitan Opera when they wanted to do it. She had allowed concert performances earlier, but had not allowed staging. She lost--European copyright didn't cut much. She finally gave up in 1914.
Not known as gracious, she banned anyone involved in the Met productions from ever appearing at Bayreuth again--quite a big deal.
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The lyrics we know as "Here Comes the Bride" are very different from those in Lohengrin. There is a wedding march, but it at the end of Act I; "Here..." is the first scene of Act II. It is an epithalamion (around the bed)-- the bride and groom are being escorted to bed and disrobed by attendants. The original would probably be considered in bad taste at most weddings.
Wagner's widow Cosima believed that his last opera, Parsifal, a kind of quasi-religious thingy, was to be performed only at his own theater at Bayreuth, Germany (as he did himself). In 1903, 21 years after the first performance, she brought a big law suit against the Metropolitan Opera when they wanted to do it. She had allowed concert performances earlier, but had not allowed staging. She lost--European copyright didn't cut much. She finally gave up in 1914.
Not known as gracious, she banned anyone involved in the Met productions from ever appearing at Bayreuth again--quite a big deal.