Fin de partie

Fin de partie - Pierre Audi

• Conductor

  Markus Stenz

• Music

  György Kurtág
  (1928)

• Director

  Pierre Audi

• Set design

  Christof Hetzer

• Costume design

  Christof Hetzer

• Lighting design

  Urs Schönebaum

• Dramaturgy

  Klaus Bertisch

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.

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.

Fin de partie

Fin de partie - Pierre Audi

• Hamm

  Frode Olsen

• Clov

  Leigh Melrose

• Nell

  Hilary Summers

• Nagg

  Leonardo Cortellazzi