Wagner: Das Liebesverbot

Wagner’s rarely performed early comic opera, based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, enjoys its Spanish debut in this new 2016 production by director Kasper Holten. The early score boasts clear Italian, French and Weberian influences, yet the music continually delights with the unmistakable emergence of Wagner’s precocious genius. His adaptation of the Bard’s play reflects the rebellious mood of a Revolutionary Germany, vindicating sensual love and attacking the fanatical repression of sexuality by a puritanical and hypocritical authority. Ivor Bolton conducts a vibrant cast featuring British baritone Christopher Maltman, Turkish-Viennese tenor Artist Ilker Arcayürek and distinguished Wagnerian soprano Manuela Uhl.