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Benjamin, dernière nuit (2016)

NR | Mar 15, 2016 (FR) | Music | 01:30

German-Jewish essayist, philosopher, and critic Walter Benjamin were 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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Jean-Noël Briend
Walter Benjamin, singer
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Sava Lolov
Walter Benjamin, actor
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Michaela Selinger
Hannah Arendt
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Charles Rice
Arthur Koestler
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Scott Wilde
Gershom Sholem
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Jeff Martin
Bertolt Brecht
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Gilles Ragon
André Gide
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Kàroly Szemerèdy
Max Horkheimer
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Elsa Rigmor Thiemann
Mme Henny Gurland

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