Omer Meir Wellber conducts world premiere of Ella Milch-Sheriff’s opera ALMA (October 2024)

Omer Meir Wellber will conduct the new opera by composer Ella Milch-Sheriff:

ALMA, an opera about Alma Mahler-Werfel, will have its world premiere at the Volksoper Vienna on October 26.

“It has been a dream of mine for years to write an opera about Alma. I have often asked myself why she is not only fervently revered, but also passionately hated. Who was this Alma Schindler really, who wrote ‘I want to compose a really good opera’ in her diary at the age of 19? What happened that it never came to pass? I investigated all these questions together with the Israeli author Ido Ricklin, who wrote a highly exciting libretto,” says Ella Milch-Sheriff.

Ella Milch-Sheriff: Alma
Opera in five acts
Libretto by Ido Ricklin
Translation from the Hebrew by Anke Rauthmann
Commissioned by the Volksoper Vienna

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Ella Milch-Sheriff’s new opera ALMA: world premiere on October 26  (August 2024)