Program

Richard Wagner, Das Liebesverbot, WWV 38

Overture

I: Introduction. "Ihr Galgenvogel, haltet ein"

I: "Wen bringt man dort?"

I: "Du kennst jenen stillen Ort"

I: "Salve Regina coeli - Göttlicher Friede"

I: "Es ist ein Mann"

I: "Wie lang er bleibt?"

I: Finale. "Nun, wird es bald?"

I: "Wohlan, so rede!"

I: "Was ist geschehn, was soll das Schrein?"

I: "Maria, wie, o Gotterlicht!"

II: "Wo Isabella bleibt by Robert Schunk"

II: "So sei's! Für seinen feigen Wankelmut"

II: "Wie Glücklich, schone Isabella"

II: "So spät und noch kein Brief von Isabella?"

II: Finale. "So recht, ihr wackern, jungen Leute!"

II: "Halt! Auseinander! Welch ein Lärmen!"

II: "Verweile hier, hier muss er kommen!"

II: "Hier soll sie sein - Wo mag sie weilen?"

II: "Ihr Heil'gen, welche Schändlichkeit!"

Wagner's Das Liebesverbot

Kasper Holten (stage director), Ivor Bolton (conductor) – With Christopher Maltman, Peter Lodahl, Manuela Uhl...

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Cast

Kasper Holten — Stage director

Steffen Aarfing — Costume designer

Signe Fabricius — Choreographer

Luke Halls — Video designer

Bruno Poet — Lighting designer

Christopher Maltman — Friedrich

Peter Lodahl — Luzio

Ilker Arcayürek — Claudio

Program notes

In 1997, the Teatro Real—whose construction was commissioned in 1850 by Queen Isabella was returned to its 19th-century luster and reputation for musical excellence, with Madrid’s symphonic orchestra and choir there in permanent residence. Under the baton of Ivor Bolton, they present Das Liebesverbot, Wagner’s early two-act opera in a staging by Kasper Holten.

“...music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm” warns Duke Vincentio in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. The 21-year-old Wagner ignored these cautionary words setting the celebrated play to a score that mixes the styles of Donizetti and German Singspiel with that of his own developing artistic voice. Laced with echoes of later works like Tannhäuser, Das Liebesverbot is a testament to the young genius’ early musical efforts and hard work that would soon bear fruit beyond his wildest dreams.

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