Bernarda Albas Haus, Opera in three acts, study score

Bernarda Albas Haus, Oper in drei Akten, Studienpartitur

Aribert Reimann, who will celebrate his 70th birthday in 2006, became famous with his opera Lear, based on Shakespeare's play. His new Lorca opera, Bernada Albas Haus is both a psychological case study and a dramaturgic compositional study: there are only female voices in different tessituras, instrumentally contrasted with soloistic wind instruments, twelve cellos within the string section and - instead of percussion - four grand pianos, partly prepared.