Aribert Reimann - Lear (Blu-ray) two-way mirror Wolfgang Büttner as Chief Inspector

Wolfgang Büttner as Chief Inspector Tetley

with catastrophically eerie results

it will trigger a desperate descent into madness

He took as his starting point Lytton Strachey’s Elizabeth and Essex

Director: Ingmar Bergman

Aribert Reimann - Lear (Blu-ray) two-way mirror Wolfgang Büttner as Chief InspectorAribert Reimanns 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