Fin de Partie, Palais Garnier, Paris: 28 April-19 May 2022

At the age of 90, Hungarian composer György Kurtág presents his first opera, based on Samuel Beckett's 1957 work of the same name. The score abounds in popular influences and allusions to great composers, from Wagner to Debussy and Mussorgsky. The orchestra, interacting with the performers, endows the drama with great expressiveness and a vocal line close to spoken language. The Paris Opera is inviting the same artistic team - conductor and cast - that triumphed at the premiere of the work in Milan in 2018, then at its revival in Amsterdam, in Pierre Audi's wonderfully understated production.

• Fin de partie

  Opera in one act
  After Samuel Beckett, Endgame

  • Music:

    György Kurtág - (1928)

  • Conductor:

    Markus Stenz

  • Director:

    Pierre Audi

  • Set design:

    Christof Hetzer

  • Costume design:

    Christof Hetzer

  • Lighting design:

    Urs Schönebaum

  • Dramaturgy:

    Klaus Bertisch

  Orchestre de l’Opéra national de Paris
  Production Teatro alla Scala, Milan et de Nationale Opera

• Cast

  
  

  • Hamm:

    • Frode Olsen

  • Clov:

    • Leigh Melrose

  • Nell:

    • Hilary Summers

  • Nagg:

    • Leonardo Cortellazzi