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Aribert Reimann: Lear

03/30/2015

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2hrs 34min

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Music

STORY

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.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Bo Skovhus
  • Katja Pieweck
  • Hellen Kwon
  • Siobhan Stagg
  • Erwin Leder

    Director

  • Karoline Gruber

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Staatsoper Hamburg

    Production Countries

LANGUAGES

    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