Richard Wagner's
Forbidden Love
Available for online viewing.
(You will find the link to watch the performance on the title page of the PDF program you receive via email when you purchase a ticket.)
“Forbidden Love” is an operatic gem that even Wagner’s devoted followers know little about. Young Wagner, at 23, wrote it in the style of rousing, exuberant 19th century Italian comic opera, before he became “𝖂𝖆𝖌𝖓𝖊𝖗”! Composed in 1836 and based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, “Forbidden Love” explores the traditional clash between puritanical, restrained sexuality and all too human self-abandoned eroticism. Come and thrill to great arias and ensembles, rousing music, and hints of the Wagner to come.
Frederick, Junhan Choi
Isabella, Ashley Becker; Claudio, Tim Ayres-Kerr
Lucio, Chad Kranak; Isabella, Ashley Becker
Frederick, Junhan Choi
CAST
LUZIO
Chad Kranak
ISABELLA
Ashley Becker
FRIEDRICH
Junhan Choi
MARIANNE
Anne-Marie Iacoviello
CLAUDIO
Tim Ayres-Kerr
DORELLA
Angelica Grau
BRIGHELLA
Thaddeus Bell
ANGELO
Max Rydqvist
PONTIO PILATO
Grant Yosenick
ANTONIA
Jeannette Lee
DANIELI
Jacob O'Shea
ANGELO
Max Rydqvist
CLAUDIO
Tim Ayres-Kerr
PONTIO PILATO
Grant Yosenick
ANTONIA
Jeannette Lee
DANIELI
RaShaun Campbell
BRIGHELLA
Thaddeus Bell
DORELLA
Marina Harris
COVERS/CHORUS
CHORUS
Drew Maidment
CHORUS
Keiko Nakagawa
FRIEDRICH
Max Rydqvist
CHORUS
Sam Pilato
DANIELI
Allyn McCourt
ISABELLA
Letitia Stevens
MARIANNE
Elizabeth Clutts
BRIGHELLA
Jacob O'Shea
CLAUDIO
Michael Gonzalez
Instrumental Ensemble
Juliet Cunningham, piano
Jane Ye Hua, piano
CREATIVE TEAM
STAGE DIRECTOR
J. Deschene
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Juliet Cunningham
PRODUCER
Martha Birnbaum