Opera From Sweden – Reimann's Lear: On-Demand Audio for a Week

Rickard Söderberg, Fredrik Zetterström och Karolina Andersson.
Foto: Janne Wieslander/Sveriges Radio

On April 27, 2013 the Malmö Opera gave the Swedish premiere performance of Aribert Reimann’s Lear, which had its world premiere in 1978. Here is a set of brief video excerpts. Below that is the full audio stream, which is available from Sveriges Radio for only seven more days. Apparently you can also download the audio if you are of a mind to download from file-sharing sites.

Lear - Fredrik Zetterstrom 

King of France - Bengt Krantz 
Duke of Albany - Daniel Hällström 

Duke of Cornwall - Rickard Söderberg 

Count of Kent - Stefan Dahlberg 

Count of Gloster - Lars Arvidson 

Edgar - Matthew Shaw 

Edmund - Christian Juslin 

Goneril - AnnLouice Lögdlund 

Regan - Karolina Andersson 

Cordelia - Elsebeth Dreisig 

Fool - Lars Humble 

Servant - Xhelal Bakraqi 

Knight - Max Schöning 

Malmö Opera Chorus and Orchestra. 

Conductor: Erik Nielsen

 Director: Stefan Johansson

Also available for a limited time from Sveriges Radio: 

Peter Grimes from The Royal Opera, Stockholm

The Barber of Seville from The Göthenborg Opera