Franziska Rabl – Dream Play For To Stay Is To Be Nowhere

Ein Traumspiel” (A Dream Play) – Aribert Reimann’s first opera – is finally available on CD, in the production by the Hof Theater that was enthusiastically acclaimed by critics and opera audiences alike.Vocal music is a central element of Aribert Reimann’s compositional output, and literature plays an equally central role for him as a source of dramatic impulse, inspiration, and subject matter – as well as providing an opportunity for creative friction and musical transformation. Reimann’s compositions for the voice – from unaccompanied solo pieces to opera – are almost always settings of literary texts.The visually stunning “Traumspiel” captivates from the very first note with it’s melodic diversity and intensity. Aribert Reimann succeeds in bringing the underlying theme of August Strindberg’s play, compassion, to life in a sensual way, and at the end gives Indra’s daughter a gift package of human worries, sufferings, and complaints, tied up with mas