Das Liebesverbot (2016)

• 85%
• 2016
• Musique
• Christopher Maltman
• Peter Lodahl
• Ilker Arcayürek

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 de lui-même. Wagner s adaptation of the story reflects the rebelles mood of a Revolutionary Germany, vindicating sensual love and attack the fanatical répression of sexuality by a puritanical and hypocritical authority. As the prose says, "Shame to him whose cruel frappe/Kill for faults of his own goût!". One of the most extraordinary comédies musicales based on a text by Shakespeare, especially worthy of a new performance as it is four hundred years since the death of the Bard.