Benjamin, Last Night: Festival for Humanity
Lo spettacolo
Consider the elements that make up a life, a mind.
Two great personalities, Michel Tabachnik and Régis Debray, combine their talents to create a new opera, taking for their subject the last night of philosopher, art critic, and translator Walter Benjamin. John Fulljames directs the first production of a work that explores relationships as much as ideas, conducted by Bernhard Kontarsky.
Sung in French, English and German, with French surtitles.
Cast/Produzione
Conductor: Bernhard Kontarsky
Director: John Fulljames
Design: Michael Levine
Costumes: Christina Cunningham
Lighting: James Farncombe
Video: Finn Ross
Sound: Carolyn Downing
Chorus Master: Philip White
Walter Benjamin: Jean‐Noël Briend
Asja Lacis: Michaela Kustekova
Hannah Arendt: Michaela Selinger
Arthur Koestler: Leigh Melrose
Gershom Sholem: Scott Wilde
Bertolt Brecht: NN
André Gide: Gilles Ragon
Theodor W. Adorno: Karoly Szemeredy
Orchestra and Chorus of Opéra de Lyon
