1922 vocal score with illustration by Franz Stassen
Librettist
Richard Wagner
Language
German
Based on
Shakespeare's Measure for Measure
Premiere
29 March 1836 (1836-03-29)
Stadttheater Magdeburg
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; these themes 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.
Das Liebesverbot was Wagner's second opera and his first to be performed. It has many signs of an early work, carrying a style modelled closely on contemporary French and Italian comic opera. It is also referred to as the forgotten comedy, being one of Wagner's only two comic works along with Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
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influences but says that, by avoiding the aping of Italian opera in DasLiebesverbot and of grand opera in Rienzi, the result was an opera more stylistically...
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