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opera Michel Tabachnik's Benjamin, dernière nuit John Fulljames (stage director), Bernhard Kontarsky (conductor) – With Jean-Noël Briend, Sava Lolov, Michaela Kustekova...

John Fulljames (stage director), Bernhard Kontarsky (conductor) – With Jean-Noël Briend, Sava Lolov, Michaela Kustekova...

Michel Tabachnik's Benjamin, dernière nuit John Fulljames (stage director), Bernhard Kontarsky (conductor) – With Jean-Noël Briend, Sava Lolov, Michaela Kustekova...

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German-Jewish essayist, philosopher, and critic Walter Benjamin was one of the early 20th century's most influential thinkers, a light in the darkness of looming war and political oppression. In Benjamin, dernière nuit, composer Michel Tabachnik and librettist Régis Debray examine this life cruelly cut short by despair in the face of Nazism. Experience the opera here in its highly acclaimed 2016 premiere production at the Lyon Opera.

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Cast

  • Régis Debray | Libretto
  • Michael Levine | Stage sets
  • Christina Cunningham | Costumes
  • James Farncombe | Lighting
  • Maxine Braham | Choreographer
  • Will Duke | Video
  • Jean-Noël Briend | Walter Benjamin, singer
  • Sava Lolov | Walter Benjamin, actor
  • Michaela Kustekova | Asja Lacis
  • Michaela Selinger | Hannah Arendt
  • Charles Rice | Arthur Koestler
  • Scott Wilde | Gershom Sholem
  • Jeff Martin | Bertolt Brecht
  • Gilles Ragon | André Gide
  • Károly Szemerédy | Max Horkheimer
  • Elsa Rigmor Thiemann | Mme Henny Gurland
  • Goele de Raedt | The Cabaret Singer
  • Baptiste Mansot | Joseph Gurland
  • Emmanuel Amado | Innkeeper
  • Bruno Froment | The Doctor
  • François Leviste | Actor-archivist
  • Orchestra, Choirs and Children's Choir of the Opéra de Lyon
  • Bernhard Kontarsky | Music director

Program

  • Michel Tabachnik, Benjamin, Dernière Nuit

Details

  • Directed by:
    • Vincent Massip
  • Venue: Lyon Opera House (Lyons, France)
  • Production date: 2016
  • Duration: 1 h 29 min
  • Production: © Opéra national de Lyon, Telmondis, Mezzo
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