The moment you feel driven

Aribert Reimann in conversation with Opernwelt

Aribert Reimann © Gaby Gerster

One of the most important opera composers of the last century, Aribert Reimann, died last month in Berlin. He was 88 years old.

Reimann was 9 years old when he experienced the bombing of Berlin in 1945. Traumatized by that experience, he once walked out of an opera performance as an 11-year-old: during the war scene in Hinde…