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Gerald Finley as King Lear and Evelyn Herlizius as Goneril in the Opera by Aribert Reimann
Lear at Salzburg Festival 2017

Opera in two parts (1976-78)
Libretto by Claus H. Henneberg after William Shakespeare’s tragedy King Lear in the German translation (1777) by Johann Joachim Eschenburg

New production
Sung in German with German and English surtitles

Print programme (PDF)

CREATIVE TEAM

Franz Welser-Möst, Conductor
Simon Stone, Director
Bob Cousins, Sets
Mel Page, Costumes
Nick Schlieper, Lighting
Christian Arseni, Dramaturgy

CAST

Gerald Finley, King Lear
Evelyn Herlitzius, Goneril
Gun-Brit Barkmin, Regan
Anna Prohaska, Cordelia
Lauri Vasar, Earl of Gloucester
Kai Wessel, Edgar
Charles Workman, Edmund
Michael Maertens, Fool
Matthias Klink, Earl of Kent
Derek Welton, Duke of Albany
Michael Colvin, Duke of Cornwall
Tilmann Rönnebeck, King of France
Franz Gruber, Servant
Volker Wahl, Knight

Concert Association of the Vienna State Opera Chorus
Huw Rhys James, Chorus Master
Vienna Philharmonic

REFERENCE

AKG5436377

Source

Marion Kalter

Crédit Photo

Marion Kalter / akg-images

Date oeuvre

16.8.2017

Mots-Clés

MUSIQUE

OPERA

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