Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by “Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.
She was one man's muse. For others, this musician and composer was a sex-obsessed monster, and for some she was both.The film shows the turbulent life of Alma Mahler-Werfel incorporating interviews ...
The first challenge is deciding what to call her. She is encircled by famous surnames—men jousting over her identity. A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the ...