Aribert Reimann: Lear
Aribert Reimann's "Lear" is a milestone in the tragic opera of the 20th century. Ever since it's 1978 premiere at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, it has made it's triumphal progress around the world in more than thirty productions as the most successful Shakespeare opera of our time. The remorseless logic of the action and plot and the primal force of irresistible sonic fantasies give this work the power to hold the attention of it's listeners and viewers from the first moment to the last. The great theme of self-deception is fancifully portrayed in this captivating stage production by Karoline Gruber with a retreat into the interior of a far from frail old man. It is not senility that drives Lear, brilliantly sung by Bo Skovhus, into isolation but his hyperactive ego. The first Hamburg performance of Lear is a musical achievement of the highest order.
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Genres
Music
Release
2015-03-30
Cast
Bo Skovhus
King Lear
Katja Pieweck
Goneril
Hellen Kwon
Regan
Siobhan Stagg
Cordelia
Erwin Leder
Actor (Fool)
Lauri Vasar
Earl of Gloucester
Andrew Watts
Edgar
Martin Homrich
Edmund
Christian Miedl
Duke of Albany
Peter Galliard
Duke of Cornwall
Jürgen Sacher
Earl of Kent
Wilhelm Schwinghammer
King of France
Frieder Stricker
Servant
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