WAGNER Das Frühwerk (9 discs, Oehms) DIE FEEN • DAS LIEBESVERBOT • RIENZI

Description: This release presents a selection of Richard Wagner’s early operas performed with a magnificent cast under the direction of Sebastian Weigle. The three-act opera Die Feen (The Fairies) was Wagner’s first completed opera (1833), but was never performed in the composer's lifetime. The German libretto was written by the composer after Carlo Gozzi's La donna serpente. Although the music of Die Feen shows the influence of Carl Maria von Weber and other composers of the time, commentators have recognized embryonic features of the mature Wagnerian opera. The fantasy plot also anticipates themes such as redemption that reappear in his later works. Die Feen by Richard Wagner Der Feenkönig – Alfred Reiter Ada – Tamara Wilson Farzana – Juanita Lascarro Zemina – Anja Fidelia Ulrich Arindal – Burkhard Fritz Lora – Brenda Rae Morald – Michael Nagy Gernot – Thorsten Grümbel Drolla – Christiane Karg Gunther – Simon Bode Harald – Sebastian Geyer Ein Bote– Simon Bode Stimme Gromas – Simon Bailey Sebastian Weigle, conductor Chor der Oper Frankfurt Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester LIVE Recording : 3 & 6 May 2011 concert performances, at the Alte Oper Frankfurt Das Liebesverbot (The Ban on Love) (1836) is a two act comic opera with a libretto written by the composer after Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. It 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. Restrained sexuality versus eroticism plays an important role in Das Liebesverbot; these themes recur throughout much of Wagner's work, 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 by Richard Wagner Friedrich – Michael Nagy Luzio – Peter Bronder Claudio – Charles Reid Antonio – Simon Bode Angelo – Franz Mayer Isabella – Christiane Libor Mariana – Anna Gabler Brighella – Thorsten Grümbel Danieli – Kihwan Sim Dorella – Anna Ryberg Pontio Pilato – Julian Prégardien Sebastian Weigle, conductor Chor der Oper Frankfurt Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester LIVE Recording : 2 & 4 May 2012 concert performances, at the Alte Oper Frankfurt Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen (Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835), was the composer's first success. The title is commonly shortened to Rienzi. Written between July 1838 and November 1840, it was first performed at the Königliches Hoftheater Dresden, on 20 October 1842. Rienzi, der letzte der Tribunen by Richard Wagner Cola Rienzi – Peter Bronder Irene – Christiane Libor Steffano Colonna – Falk Struckmann Adriano – Claudia Mahnke Paolo Orsini – Daniel Schmutzhard Raimondo – Alfred Reiter Baroncelli – Beau Gibson Cecco del Vecchio – Peter Felix Bauer Sebastian Weigle, conductor Chor der Oper Frankfurt Frankfurter Opern- und Museumsorchester LIVE Recording : 17 & 20 May 2013 concert performances, at the Alte Oper Frankfurt

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