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Titel:György Kurtág's Fin de partie [Endgame]
Pierre Audi (stage director), Markus Stenz (conductor) -- With Frode Olsen (Hamm), Leigh Melrose (Clov), Leonardo Cortellazzi (Nagg), Hilary Summers (Nell)
Von: Arnalda Canali, director
Person: Canali, Arnalda
Hetzer, Christof
Schönebaum, Urs
Audi, Pierre
Sonstige
Weitere Personen: Kurtág, György
Format: Elektronisch Video
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: [Place of publication not identified] RAI 2018
Teatro alla Scala 2018
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Online-Zugang:http://musik.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/medici-tv/edu.medici.tv/en/operas/gyorgy-kurtag-fin-de-partie-pierre-audi-markus-stenz-orchestra-e-coro-del-teatro-alla-scala-teatro-alla-scala
https://edu.medici.tv/en/operas/gyorgy-kurtag-fin-de-partie-pierre-audi-markus-stenz-orchestra-e-coro-del-teatro-alla-scala-teatro-alla-scala
Abstract:Can you imagine the thrill of seeing--for the first time--a newly composed opera in your own time? For every opera that is now a household name, a lucky audience was there at the premiere to witness the very first of thousands of performances. Today you can experience that feeling of discovery at Milan's hallowed La Scala, with the world premiere of a challenging and surprising opera that took the composer eight years to complete: Hungarian composer György Kurtág's Fin de partie. Samuel Beckett's masterpiece Endgame--called the 20th century's greatest prose drama by critic Harold Bloom--made its debut in opera form at La Scala in 2018 and, according to the New Yorker's Alex Ross, "Beckett has been waiting for Kurtág all this time." What is Fin de partie about? If you know Waiting for Godot, the themes will be familiar: Hamm, his servant Clov, and Nagg and Nell (Hamm's parents) are living together in the cramped space of a house by the sea, "all four waiting for an end to this static, claustrophobic situation with its lack of possible developments" (Cesare Fertonani) ...
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