“Alma,” premiering this week at the Vienna Volksoper, views its often-vilified protagonist through a feminist lens: as a thwarted composer and mother.

Alma Mahler Gropius Werfel, the great heartbreaker of fin de sie{grv}cle Vienna, was stunning, smart, moderately unbalanced and phenomenally successful when it came to bedding famous men. She ...

Sources include Mahler’s and his friends’ correspondence, reviews, news stories, works by contemporaries and early biographers, and the widow Alma’s self-serving memorabilia.

Gustave Mahler, played with reserve and self-importance by Jonathan Pryce, used his much younger bride as a music copyist and bookkeeper though she herself was a composer and musician.

Thus Alma Mahler became Alma Mahler-Werfel. The marriage lasted 25 years, during which time Werfel became one of the most successful authors writing in the German language.

What Alma sacrificed of herself in her marriage is at the heart of Mary Sharratt’s seventh novel, “Ecstasy,” which traces Alma’s life until Mahler died in 1911.

Alma Mahler is slipping. Wife and lover of great composers, writers, artists, architects, she now attracts lesser creative types. An embarrassing biopic, “Bride of the Wind,” was released to ...

Bee Wilson writes of Alma Mahler that her ‘empire over men extended far beyond those she slept with’ (LRB, 5 November). It extended, in the opinion of some of her entourage, into the afterlife. When ...