Title: Lear (opera)
Content:  Lear is an opera in two parts with music by the German composer Aribert Reimann, and a libretto by Claus H. Henneberg, based on Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear.
Title: King Lear
Content:  German composer Aribert Reimann's opera Lear premiered on 9 July 1978. Japanese composer's Toshio Hosokawa's opera Vision of Lear premiered on 18 April 1998 at the Munich Biennale. Finnish composer Aulis Sallinen's opera Kuningas Lear premiered on 15 September 2000.
Title: Edward Lear
Content:  Lear primarily played the piano, but he also played the accordion, flute, and small guitar. He composed music for many Romantic and Victorian poems, but was known mostly for his many musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. He published four settings in 1853, five in 1859, and three in 1860. Lear's were the only musical settings that Tennyson approved of. Lear also composed music for many of his nonsense songs, including "The Owl and the Pussy-cat," but only two of the scores have survived, the music for "The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò" and "The Pelican Chorus". While he never played professionally, he did perform his own nonsense songs and his settings of others' poetry at countless social gatherings, sometimes adding his own lyrics (as with the song "The Nervous Family"), and sometimes replacing serious lyrics with nursery rhymes.
Title: Lear (opera)
Content:  Reimann wrote the title role specifically for the baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who had suggested the subject to the composer as early as 1968. Reimann then received a commission from the Bavarian State Opera in 1975. The world premiere, in a production by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle with Fischer-Dieskau in the title role, occurred at the National Theatre Munich on 9 July 1978, with Gerd Albrecht conducting. The production was revived in Munich in 1980. The US premiere, in English translation, was presented by the San Francisco Opera in June 1981, with Thomas Stewart as Lear, under Gerd Albrecht. The Paris premiere took place in November 1982, in a French translation by Antoinette Becker. The UK premiere was presented by English National Opera in 1989; the Swedish premiere took place at the Malmö Opera on 27 April 2013.
Title: Re Lear
Content:   Re Lear (Italian for King Lear) is an Italian operatic libretto in four acts written by Antonio Somma for the Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi. It was based on King Lear, "the Shakespeare play with which Verdi struggled for so many years, but without success". The Re Lear project is widely considered illustrative of Verdi's complex and enduring fascination with Shakespeare. Verdi commissioned the libretto first from Salvadore Cammarano, who died in June 1852 before he could complete it. Then, three years later, while working with Antonio Somma on what was eventually to become Un ballo in maschera, he proposed that Somma read King Lear and he re-read the play himself, then sought Somma's reactions. Their extensive correspondence has been preserved; it thoroughly documents Verdi's oversight and detailed supervision, the result being two completed and still extant versions of the libretto prepared by Somma in 1853 and 1855. However, while the idea of Re Lear remained with Verdi into the 1890s, no music for the opera was ever composed.
Title: Lear (play)
Content:  Lear is a 1971 three-act play by the British dramatist Edward Bond. It is a rewrite of William Shakespeare's King Lear. The play was first produced at the Royal Court Theatre in 1971, featuring Harry Andrews in the title role. It was revived by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1982 with Bob Peck, and revived again at the Crucible Theatre, Sheffield, in 2005 with Ian McDiarmid. Bond, a socialist, was attempting to reverse modern trends which focused on the Shakespeare play as an artistic experience, at the expense of more practical elements of social critique. By creating a politically effective piece from a similar story, he was more likely to cause people to question their society and themselves, 
Title: Vision of Lear
Content:  Toshio Hosokawa composed his first opera in 1997 and 1998 on a commission of the City of Munich for its 1998 Munich Biennale. The libretto was written in English by Tadashi Suzuki, based on Shakespeare's play King Lear. The opera in two acts includes elements from the traditional Japanese Noh theatre. The world premiere at the Carl-Orff-Saal of the Gasteig on 19 April 1998, as part of the festival, was staged by Suzuki who was also responsible for stage, costume, and lighting design. It was performed by the Xsemble Munich, conducted by Georges-Elie Octors, in a co-production of the Biennale and the Shizuoka Performing Arts Center. The UK premiere was given in the Linbury Studio of the Royal Opera House on 31 January 2002, staged by director Harry Ross and designer Mike Jardine, and conducted by Gregory Rose, with Nicholas Garrett in the title role.
Title: Kuningas Lear
Content:  Kuningas Lear (King Lear) is an opera in two acts by Aulis Sallinen, with a libretto by the composer, based on the play by William Shakespeare and premiered in 2000; it was Sallinen's sixth opera.
Title: List of compositions by Giuseppe Verdi
Content: Re Lear (King Lear), 1856. Librettist Antonio Somma worked with Verdi on completing a libretto for an opera based on Shakespeare's King Lear. This libretto was based on an incomplete one written by librettist Salvatore Cammarano before he died in 1852. It was never set to music. 
Title: Lear (play)
Content:  ; Farmer - Geoffrey Hinsliff ; Farmer's Wife - Marjorie Yates ; Farmer's Son - Anthony Milner ; Thomas - Alec Heggie ; John - Richard Howard ; Susan - Diana Quick ; Small Man - Ron Pember ; Officer - Gareth Hunt ; A Boy - Ray Barron ; And other soldiers, Workers, Strangers, Court Officials, Guards The English Stage Company presented the play at the Royal Court Theatre, where it opened on 29 September 1971, directed by William Gaskill. The cast was as follows:  Sets designed by John Napier Costumes designed by Deirdre Clancy Lighting by Andy Phillips

Question: Who was the composer of Lear?
Answer: Aribert Reimann.