
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