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2022 / AROP evening / Opera
30 Apr.

Fin de partie

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Première

    Palais Garnier

    19h30

    Duration
    2h00

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  • Opening of the performance
    19h30
  • End of the performance
    21h35

As Clov points out from his appearance, the performance is over before it has even begun. At the age of 90, György Kurtág composes his first opera and seizes upon Samuel Beckett’s 1957 play of the same name for a subject. This centrepiece of the new theatre that emerged after the Second World War presents a post -apocalyptic world and four characters whose relationships have deteriorated to the extreme: an aged paraplegic, his handicapped servant and his parents who live in dustbins. To accompany these absurd figures, shadows of themselves, director Pierre Audi adds nothing more than a house to the set. In this no man’s land, the sombre, penetrating tones of the orchestra – the fifth character in the opera – serve a score as rich as the life on stage appears meaningless.

Fin de partie

Fin de partie - Pierre Audi

  • 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

Cast

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Frode
Olsen

Hamm

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Leigh
Melrose

Clov

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Hilary
Summers

Nell

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Leonardo
Cortellazzi

Nagg

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

Fin de partie will be broadcast on France Musique on June 1st in the program "Le concert de 20h", presented by Arnaud Merlin.