A quiet place

A quiet place - Krzysztof WARLIKOWKSI

• Music

  Leonard Bernstein
  (1918-1990)

• Libretto

  Stephen Wadsworth

• Libretto, orchestration adapted

  Garth Edwin Sunderland

• Conductor

  Kent Nagano

• Director

  Krzysztof Warlikowski

• Set design, Costume design

  Małgorzata Szczęśniak

• Lighting design

  Felice Ross

• Video

  Kamil Polak

• Artistic collaboration

  Claude Bardouil

• Dramaturgy

  Miron Hakenbeck

• Chorus master

  Alessandro Di Stefano

A Quiet Place, composed in 1983 by Leonard Bernstein and reworked in 1986, was conceived as a sequel to Trouble in Tahiti. Three decades later, we re-encounter Sam, a failed father rejected by his two children. Dinah, his wife, has just died in a car accident and the family have gathered for her funeral. The pain of mourning reveals unspoken wounds. This work, deeply rooted in the society of the era and its accompanying taboos, is the last opera by a composer who constantly sought to renew operatic forms. A new version, adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland, was premiered in concert version in 2013 under the baton of Kent Nagano. The opera is being brought to the stage for the first time, and the Paris Opera has entrusted this project to Krzysztof Warlikowski, who focuses the story around the family and its secrets.

Orchestre et Choeurs de l’Opéra national de Paris
World premiere of the new orchestration for full orchestra

En accord avec la société Editions Durand, représentée par Maya Campesato en sa qualité d'agent représentant de Boosey & Hawkes Music Publishers Limited, agent exclusif de Leonard Bernstein Music Publishing Company LLC, éditeur.
@ 1983, 1988 par Amberson Holdings LLC et Stephen Wadsworth Zinsser, Adaptation @ 2013, 2022

A Quiet Place will be broadcast on France Musique on April 23 at 8pm in the program "Samedi à l'Opéra", presented by Judith Chaine.

A quiet place

A quiet place - Krzysztof WARLIKOWKSI

• Dede

  Claudia Boyle

• François

  Frédéric Antoun

• Junior

  Gordon Bintner

• Sam

  Russell Braun

• Funeral director

  Colin Judson

• Bill

  Régis Mengus

• Susie

  Hélène Schneiderman

• Analyst

  Loïc Félix

• Doc

  Jean-Luc Ballestra

• Mrs Doc

  Emanuela Pascu

• Mourners Soprano

  Marianne Croux

• Mourners Alto

  Ramya Roy

• Mourners Tenor

  Kiup Lee

• Mourners Bass

  Niall Anderson

• Dinah

  Johanna Wokalek