Aribert Reimann: Lear - Staatsoper Hamburg (2014) [Blu-ray]

Aribert Reimann’s Lear is a milestone in the tragic opera of the 20th century. Ever since its 1978 premiere at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, it has made its 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 its 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. “The orchestra of the State Opera under its GMD Simone Young is in absolutely top form.”

Лир — двухактная опера немецкого композитора Ариберта Раймана на сюжет трагедии Уильяма Шекспира «Король Лир», либретто Клауса Хеннеберга.

Заказ на создание этой оперы Райман получил в 1975 году от Баварской государственной оперы. Мировая премьера "Лир" в постановке Жана-Пьера Поннеля состоялась в Мюнхенском национальном театре 9 июня 1978 года.