Photo © Elisa Haberer / OnP
Photo © Elisa Haberer / OnP
Lear
Palais Garnier - from 21 November to 07 December 2019
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Lear
Opera Aribert Reimann
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Palais Garnier - from 21 November to 07 December 2019
2h50 with 1 interval
Surtitle : French / English
Opening night : 21 November 2019
About
In few words:
Numerous composers have sought to come to grips with this monument of Shakespearian tragedy. Keen to perform the title role of King Lear, the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau turned to Aribert Reimann who initially declined the proposition. However, in 1975, when Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper approached him, he finally agreed to take up the challenge of this impossible opera. From the sombre orchestral timbres and the highly nuanced vocal lines emerge all the tortuous dissimulations and violence of human relationships. No illusions remain, however, in Calixto Bieito’s cathartic production in which each of the characters is stripped bare: collective hysteria gives way to an old man’s solitude. Destroyed, like a new-born babe, he weeps to find “that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
Lear
Opera in two parts (1978)
After William Shakespeare, King Lear
In German
Music :
Aribert Reimann
Libretto :
Claus H. Henneberg
Conductor :
Director :
Set design :
Costume design :
Video :
Lighting design :
Dramaturgy :
Chorus master :
König Lear :
König von Frankreich :
Herzog von Albany :
Herzog von Cornwall :
Graf von Kent :
Graf von Gloster :
Edgar :
Edmund :
Goneril :
Regan :
Cordelia :
Narr :
Bedienter :
Ritter :
Performances
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Available in audiodescription
Advantages
Full
Gallery
Audio clips
Lear - Acte 1
Lear - Acte 1
Lear - Acte 2
Lear - Acte 2
Media coverage
L’opéra d’Aribert Reimann offre un spectacle d’une grande intensité
Le Monde, 27 mai 2016, Marie-Aude Roux
Le grand mérite en revient à la mise en scène de Calixto Bieito (..) le metteur en scène catalan, a renoncé à son goût pour la provocation et s'est concentre sur le jeu scénique, survolte jusqu'à l'outrance mais toujours juste.
Le Figaro, 26 mai 2016, Christian Merlin
“Lear”, d'Aribert Reimann, magnifie la tragédie de Shakespeare.
Télérama, 26 mai 2016, Sophie Bourdais
About the work
The man who tamed a king
Draw-me Lear
By Octave
Podcast Lear
In the role of a "monster"
Beyond the experience
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