in the bridal chamber. The curtain rises and the well-known "Wedding March" is heard. The bridal pair enter the bridal chamber accompanied by the King and a number of attendants and followers. After a few brief ceremonies the newlyweds are left alone. There follows a sweet, tender dialogue in which each one's trust in the other, and her happiness, shine forth. But the seeds of doubt remain in Elsa's soul concerning the name of her knight and hero, and his origin. In vain does he try to reassure her. It seems to Elsa that she sees the swan coming to snatch her hus-band from her. In the depth of her despair, and as though a demonic power were driving her to it, she asks the fateful questions: "What is your name? Whence did you come? Who are you?" And before the sorrowful knight can answer, Telramund enters the room, sword in hand. Elsa cries out to Lohengrin: "Defend yourself!" and hands him his sword. With a single magic blow Lohengrin strikes Telramund to the ground, a lifeless corpse, and repeats in sorrow, and with a great heart: "Alas, our happiness has flown!"

Scene Two:

The King again holds court beneath the oak tree, surrounded by all the nobles of Brabant. The body of Telramund is carried in, and it is ruled that Lohengrin was in the right in slaying his enemy. But now he must tell them that Elsa asked him the fateful ques-tions, and he is bound to answer.

Lohengrin confesses that he is from Monsalvat, the home of the knights of the Holy Grail; that Parsifal, the leader of those

knights, is his father; and that his name is Lohengrin. The swan comes, drawing the boat to the shore, and Lohengrin receives it sorrowfully. He bends toward Elsa and bids her farewell with a grieving heart, and gives her his horn, his ring, and his sword for her brother Gottfried, should he return. He sinks to his knees and prays, and the chorus performs the anthem of the Holy Grail, while the white dove of the Grail descends from heaven and hovers over the boat. The moment Lohengrin sees it he leaps to his feet and unfastens the golden chain that binds the swan to the boat; the swan sinks, and in its place there rises on the

riverbank a handsome young man clad in gleaming silver garments. Lohengrin cries: "Behold your ruler!" At the sight of the young Prince Gottfried, Ortrud sinks into the river after a cry escapes her. For it was she who, by her witchcraft and magic, had trans-formed the prince into a swan, falsely and slanderously accusing his sister Elsa of killing him. Lohengrin rushes to the boat, and the dove (in place of the swan) takes up the golden chain and draws the boat across the river. A last cry of despair escapes Elsa: "My husband, my husband!" — while Lohengrin's face recedes from her little by little.

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