Sex, grief and a crushed musical identity: Alma Mahler steps on to the operatic stage

Sex, grief and a crushed musical identity: Alma Mahler steps on to the operatic stage

Israeli composer Ella Milch-Sheriff’s work about a dizzyingly passionate woman to premiere in Vienna There are big, messy lives that can be called operatic and then there was Alma Mahler’s. After her first kiss with Gustav Klimt as a teenager and dreams of a career in composing, passionate love affairs with a dizzying array of…