The composer and pianist Aribert Reimann has died at the age of 88. Reimann’s output of more than 70 works was dominated by operas and song cycles, and he will be best remembered for his opera Lear, which has been performed in more than 30 productions since its premiere in 1978. Reimann was born in Berlin into a musical family, his mother a singer, his father the leader of the Berlin Cathedral Choir. From 1955 he worked as a repetiteur at the Städtische Oper (now Deutsche Oper) Berlin, and also began studies in piano, counterpoint and composition at the Musikhochschule Berlin.
His career as a composer for the stage began in 1959 with the ballet Stoffreste, to a libretto by Günter Grass. His first opera followed in 1965, Ein Traumspiel,…
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Opera Now (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2024