Das Liebesverbot
Overview
This Wagner opera is rarely performed because of the scandals that engulfed the Magdeburg Theatre when it was performed in 1836 under the title The Novice of Palermo, and became known as a cursed opera from which the composer had to distance himself. Wagner's adaptation of the story reflects the rebellious mood of a Revolutionary Germany, vindicating sensual love and attack the fanatical repression of sexuality by a puritanical and hypocritical authority. As the prose says, "Shame to him whose cruel striking/Kills for faults of his own liking!". One of the most extraordinary musicals based on a text by Shakespeare, especially worthy of a new performance as it is four hundred years since the death of the Bard.
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Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor
Mefistofele
Manon Lescaut - Metropolitan Opera
Le Roi Arthus
First Opera Film Festival
Handel: Admeto
Amor, vida de mi vida: Zarzuelas
Tamerlano
Don Giovanni
Cosi Fan Tutte
Orfeo Ed Euridice
Mozart: Così Fan Tutte (Zurich Opera House)
Viva Vivaldi
Cecilia & Bryn at Glyndebourne
Alceste
Bartoli in Italy
The Great Waltz
Schubert: Fierrabras
Death in Venice
Werther