Lear (opera)

Lear
Opera by Aribert Reimann
Erwin Leder as the Fool and Bo Skovhus as Lear in a 2012 production at the Hamburg State Opera
LibrettistClaus H. Henneberg
LanguageGerman
Based onKing Lear
by William Shakespeare
Premiere
9 July 1978 (1978-07-09)
National Theatre Munich

Lear is an opera in two parts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear.

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