after a play by August Strindberg –
translated from Swedish and arranged by the composer and Uwe Schendel
in German
Next Performances:
February 16, 18, 20, 23, 25, 27
at: 7.30 p.m.
through 9.00 p.m.
Aribert Reimann, born in Berlin in 1936, is one of leading contemporary composers (of operas). He is a staunch advocate of literary adaptations and rose to fame by setting to music numerous classics of world literature, such as Shakespeare’s “King Lear” or Kafka’s “The Castle”. Works by the Scandinavian author August Strindberg even served as a basis for two of his operas: “A Dream Play” (1965) and “The Ghost Sonata” (1984). In Reimann’s “Ghost Sonata”, where bourgeois lives are fatefully entwined in a universe apart, scarce means are wrought into an impressive texture of sound.
Wiener Kammeroper
Fleischmarkt 24
A-1010 Wien
Tickets: Mo–Fr 12 p.m. – 6 p.m.
Phone: +43-1-512 01 00-77
Fax: +43-1-512 01 00-30
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