FULL DAS LIEBESVERBOT or No Love Allowed San Francisco CA 1990 Pocket Opera
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: DAS LIEBESVERBOT or No Love Allowed
- Composer: Wagner Richard
- Libretto: Richard Wagner
- Venue & Opera Company: Herbst Theatre, San Francisco area, California
- Recorded: June 26, 1990
- Type: Concert Semi-staged
- Singers: unknown
- Conductor:
- Orchestra:
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Information MP+D
- Date Published: 2023
- Format: Unknown
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: ok FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
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Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love, WWV 38), is an early comic opera in two acts by Richard Wagner, with the libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. Described as a Große komische Oper, it was composed in early 1836.
Restrained sexuality versus eroticism plays an important role in Das Liebesverbot; themes that recur throughout much of Wagner’s output, most notably in Tannhäuser, Die Walküre and Tristan und Isolde. In each opera, the self-abandonment to love brings the lovers into mortal combat with the surrounding social order. In Das Liebesverbot, because it is a comedy, the outcome is a happy one: unrestrained sexuality wins as the carnival of the entire population goes rioting on after curtain-fall.
Wagner’s second opera, and his first to be performed, has many signs of an early work: the style is modelled closely on contemporary French and Italian comic opera. It is also referred to as the forgotten comedy, in that only two of Wagner’s works are comedies, the other being Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.