Promised End | Opera review

Linbury Studio, LondonVerdi and Britten both considered writing operas based on King Lear, but eventually abandoned their plans. Contemporary composers have been less cautious: Aribert Reimann's Lear was written in the 1970s for the great baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, while 10 years ago the Finn Aulis Sallinen produced his Kuningas Lear. Now it's Alexander Goehr's turn, using a text extracted entirely from Shakespeare's play and taking a title from the final scene.Goehr has promised this w...

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