Das Liebesverbot, in concert, Chelsea Opera Group, Cadogan Hall, 25 October 2015
Posted on 26 October 2015This boisterous, comic opera by the 22-year-old Wagner was entirely outside his subsequent metier, and very different from his first opera Die Feen, completed a year earlier. It is also his only one based on a Shakespeare play, in this case the aptly named Measure for Measure — judge not lest ye be judged. The …