Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" is set in which present day country?

First performed in 1850, "Lohengrin" is one of the most popular and enduring operas of the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Even those not familiar with opera will probably recognise the bridal chorus.

Although the work, like his later masterpiece "Parsifal", draws on a mixture of German mythology and the legend of the Holy Grail, it is set in Brabant, which with the exception of one small northern region, is in present-day Belgium.

The work tells the story of Lohengrin, the son of Parsifal, who arrives in a mystical boat drawn by a swan to defend the honour and, indeed, life, of Elsa of Brabant, who is accused of murdering her younger brother, the heir to the dukedom. The only condition, in a trope familiar in many mythological tales around the world, is that she must not ask his name. Needless to say, in the end she does, and he has to leave her, though not before producing the child, unharmed.

The work contains some of the composer's best-loved music, including, as well as the Bridal Chorus, the preludes to both the first and third act, and the so-called Grail Monologue.