Reimann's Lear makes for a dark season finale at Prague State Opera

MIloš Horák (Gloucester) and Tómas Tómasson (Lear)

Tómas Tómasson (Lear) and Barbora Perná (Cordelia)

Donnie (dog), Victoria Khorosunova (Goneril) and Tómas Tómasson (Lear)

Dagmar Pecková (Fool), Tómas Tómasson (Lear) and Miloš Horák (Gloucester)

By Frank Kuznik, 09 June 2025

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Reviewed at State Opera (Státní opera), Prague on 7 June 2025

Reimann, Lear

Prague State Opera

Hermann Bäumer, Conductor

Richard Hein, Conductor

Barbora Horáková, Director

Rhea Eckstein, Set Designer

Benjamin Burgunder, Costume Designer

Sascha Zauner, Lighting Designer

Prague National Theatre Orchestra

Prague National Theatre Chorus

Adria Bieito Camì, Video

Ondřej Hučín, Dramaturgy

Tómas Tómasson, Lear

Victoria Khoroshunova, Goneril

Petra Šimková-Alvarez, Regan

Barbora Perná, Cordelia

Csaba Kotlár, Duke of Albany

Jaroslav Březina, Duke of Cornwall

Ivo Hrachovec, King of France

Miloš Horák, Earl of Gloucester

Hagen Matzeit, Edgar

Florian Stern, Edmund

Josef Moravec, Earl of Kent

Dietrich Henschel, Fool

Prague National Theatre Opera Ballet

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Frank Kuznik

Frank Kuznik is the former Editor-in-Chief and Culture Editor of The Prague Post, Central Europe’s premier English-language weekly newspaper. He currently divides his time between Prague and his hometown in the US, Cleveland, where he covers northeast Ohio's dynamic classical music scene. In Prague he is an habitué of the Rudolfinum, National Theater, State Opera and other storied classical music venues, and an unabashed fan of Czech music.