Wagner Das Liebesverbot & Bellini I Capuleti et I Montecchi
Glimmerglass Opera Festival, New York, July 5- August 24, 2008.
The 2009 Glimmerglass Festival had a Shakespeare theme and included Wagner's Das Liebesverbot , based on Measure for Measure and heavily influenced by Italian opera of the time and Bellini's I Capuleti et I Montecchi, which is the same story as Romeo and Juliet but based on other sources.
The two operas have a further link in that Wagner, initially at any rate, admired Bellini's operas ("Bellini: A Word in Season", 1837) and although, nearly 40 years later ( "The Destiny of Opera", 1871 ) he was rather less fulsome, describing I Capuleti et I Montecchi as "utterly threadbare", yet he could still recall the vivid impression that Schröder-Devrient had made in the role of Romeo. Wagner also wrote about his opera in an article in 1871, see http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/prose/wagliebe.htm .
The following photographs are by Cory Weaver and provided courtesy of Glimmerglass Opera. Reviews of the Wagner may be found at http://www.glimmerglass.org/press/reviews08.html#wagner and further photographs at http://www.glimmerglass.org/press/gallery3noflash.html . Reviews and photographs of the Bellini are at http://www.glimmerglass.org/press/reviews08.html#capuleti and http://www.glimmerglass.org/press/gallery4noflash.html .
Wagner's Das Liebesverbot
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Friedrich Mark Schnaible *Member of Glimmerglass Opera's 2008 |
Conductor Corrado Rovaris |
Mariana
and Isabella
© 2008
Cory Weaver/ Glimmerglass Opera
Dorella,
Marianna and Luzio
© 2008
Cory Weaver/ Glimmerglass Opera
Julio,
Claudio, Friedrich and Luzio
© 2008
Cory Weaver/ Glimmerglass Opera
Das
Liebesverbot
© 2008
Cory Weaver/ Glimmerglass Opera
Bellini I Capuleti et I Montecchi
Romeo Sandra Piques Eddy *Member of Glimmerglass Opera's 2008 |
Conductor David Angus |
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Giulietta
and Romeo (Emily Righter)
Lorenzo,
Tebaldo and Capellio
Romeo
(Sandra Piques Eddy)
Romeo
(Sandra Piques Eddy), Giulietta and Tebaldo
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