If you had dropped in at a rehearsal in Room 105 at the USC Thornton School of Music earlier this month, you would have caught a lively scene. Two singers were holding chairs upside-down over their ...

In a lifetime of opera-going in which I’ve attended over 1,300 opera performances, I’ve never till now had the chance to attend a performance of Richard Wagner’s second opera, Das Liebesverbot. At ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. -- Wagner finished three operas before he composed the first of the 10 works for which he is famous. "Das Liebesverbot," which is receiving an exceedingly rare production here at the ...

A nasty German official named Friedrich has ascended to temporary power in Palermo and has decreed that all things pleasurable are now against the law. So it goes in "Das Liebesverbot (No Love Allowed ...