A Dream Play; For to Stay is to be Nowhere

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Wergo
Release Date
April 17, 2026
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Aribert Reimann
    • PERFORMER
      Franziska Rabl, Karsten Jesgarz, James Tolksdorf, Marek Reichert, Opernchor Theater Hof, Hofer Symph
    Product Details ⌄
    Works ⌄

    1. Vorspiel: In den Wolken (Daughter, Chorus)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Opernchor des Theaters Hof, Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Franziska Rabl

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    2. Scene 1: Vor dem Schloss (Daughter, Glazier)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Franziska Rabl, Daniel Milos

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    3. Scene 2: Ein Zimmer (Daughter, Officer)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Franziska Rabl, Karsten Jesgarz

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    4. Scene 3: Das Zimmer der Eltern (Father, Mother, Officer, Daughter)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Rainer Mesecke, Laura Lietzmann, Karsten Jesgarz, Franziska Rabl

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    5. Scene 4: Vor dem Theater (Daughter, Doorkeeper, Notesticker, Singer, Officer, Viktoria, Chorus, Glazier, Policeman)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Opernchor des Theaters Hof, Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Franziska Rabl, Stefanie Rhaue, Christian Seidel, Yvonne Prentki, Karsten Jesgarz, Laura Lietzmann, Daniel Milos, Rainer Mesecke

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    6. Scene 5: Büro des Advokaten (Lawyer, Daughter, Officer)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: James Tolksdorf, Franziska Rabl, Karsten Jesgarz

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    7. Scene 6: In der Kirche (Lawyer, Daughter, Chorus)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Opernchor des Theaters Hof, Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: James Tolksdorf, Franziska Rabl

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    8. Scene 7: Die Fingalsgrotte (Lawyer, Daughter)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: James Tolksdorf, Franziska Rabl

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    9. Scene 8: In der Wohnung des Advokaten (Kristin, Daughter, Lawyer, Officer)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Bärbel Kubicek, Franziska Rabl, James Tolksdorf, Karsten Jesgarz

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    10. Scene 9: Strand der Schande (Officer, Quarantine Master, He, She, Poet, Daughter)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Karsten Jesgarz, Rainer Mesecke, Min Seok Kim, Yvonne Prentki, Marek Reichert, Franziska Rabl

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    11. Scene 10: Die schöne Bucht (Daughter, Edith, Naval Officer, Poet, Lawyer)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Franziska Rabl, Yvonne Prentki, Karsten Jesgarz, Marek Reichert, James Tolksdorf

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    12. Scene 11: Die Fingalsgrotte (Poet, Daughter, Chorus)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Opernchor des Theaters Hof, Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Marek Reichert, Franziska Rabl

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    13. Scene 12: Vor dem Theater (Daughter, Doorkeeper, Chorus, Officer, Victoria, Poet, Chancellor, Dean of Theology, Dean of Philosophy, Dean of Law, Dean of Medicine, Glazier)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Opernchor des Theaters Hof, Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Franziska Rabl, Stefanie Rhaue, Karsten Jesgarz, Laura Lietzmann, Marek Reichert, Rainer Mesecke, Min Seok Kim, Wladimir Polatynski, Joscha Blatzheim, Thilo Andersson, Daniel Milos

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    14. Scene 13: Vor dem Schloss (Daughter, Poet, Doorkeeper, Officer, Notesticker, Glazier, Lawyer, Quarantine Master, Victoria, Edith, Don Juan, Theologian, Kristin)

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Hof Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Franziska Rabl, Marek Reichert, Stefanie Rhaue, Karsten Jesgarz, Christian Seidel, Daniel Milos, James Tolksdorf, Rainer Mesecke, Laura Lietzmann, Yvonne Prentki, Peter Potzelt, Min Seok Kim, Bärbel Kubicek

      Conductor: Walter E. Gugerbauer

    15. Denn Bleiben ist nirgends

      Composer: Aribert Reimann

      Ensemble: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin

      Performer: Martin Engler

      Conductor: Manuel Nawri


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 masterful music, to take with her to the afterlife to the god Indra. In addition to August Strindberg, Reimann was also inspired by the poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, although he takes a completely different musical approach to Rilke's first "Duino Elegy": in his composition "Denn Bleiben ist nirgends" (For to Stay is to be Nowhere), he combines the text, recited by a speaker, with a symphony orchestra playing in a broad, expansive style to create a melodrama. Herein, the music corresponds to Rilke's poetic text that - according to Reimann in his notes on the work - "justifies the development of an independent piece of music and is not simply the point of departure for subsidiary background music." The result is "a constant exchange, in which the expressive impulses sometimes come from the language and are taken up by the music, or vice versa, until each becomes the instrument of the other.