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Title: Lear Condition: New Release Date: 13/04/2015 Actor: Philharmoniker Hamburg, Chor der Staatsoper Hamburg, Bo Skovhus, Katja Pieweck, Hellen Kwon Format: Blu-ray Type: Blu-ray Director: Karoline Gruber Certificate: BBFC E No Of Discs: 1 Run Time: 2 hours and 36 minutes Country/Region of Manufacture: USA Studio: Arthaus Musik Subtitle Language: English EAN: 0807280906493 Region Code: Blu-ray: A (Americas, Southeast Asia...) Language: German Release Year: 2015 Description: PRODUCT DESCRIPTION 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." (Handelsblatt)
REVIEW The energy and pace of the Reimann bear witness to its creator's engagement with their subject. Their version feels less a setting of another's masterpiece than a subject they're realising themselves. --Gramophone, July'15
It's a powerfully committed performance . --Opera, Aug'15 Missing Information?
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