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Updated Friday, March 15, 2024-09:30
Opera Lear at the Teatro Real: All against all
Calixto Bieito locks King Lear in his labyrinth "There are silences that unleash chaos"
The composer
Aribert Reimann
(Berlin, 1936), author of the opera
Lear
(1978), which premiered at the
Teatro Real
on January 26, died this Wednesday in Berlin, as reported this Thursday by
Schott
, editor of his scores. .
The
Teatro Real
has lamented the loss of one of the "most important" composers of recent decades, whom its artistic director
Joan Matabosch
has described as the great defender of opera as an art form at a time when the avant-garde of Her generation considered her "a vestige of romanticism that did not correspond to a society that had survived the
Second World War
."
Matabosch
claims that
Reimann
composed some of the best operas of the 20th century.
"One of them,
Lear
, based on Shakespeare
's tragedy
, has become an essential title. Its musical style fits perfectly with the somber theme of the text."
To do so, he adopts the "most radical" musical language of his time, tempered with a "wonderful sense of musical dramaturgy and economy of means."
A little over a month ago the composer, who due to health problems did not attend the premiere of his opera in
Madrid
, wrote a loving message to all the artists participating in the production in which he assured them that he would be with all of them at the premiere. and in the following functions.
Lear
, with musical direction by
Asher Fisch
and staging by
Calixto Bieito
, premiered at the Real and viewers were able to meet "one of the most important composers of lyrical repertoire of the last 50 years," concludes
Mataboch
.