Sleepless by Eötvös, нед 03 апр 2022, от (2022/2022), Режисиран от Kornél Mundruczó, диригент Peter Eötvös, Maxime Pascal, Grand-Théâtre, Geneva, Switzerland

Peter Eötvös, the Hungarian with more than ten operas under his belt, is one of the greatest living composers. Tri sestri, created in 1998 in Lyon, is generally regarded as one of the reference works of opera in the second half of the twentieth century. For his latest operatic work, the conductor and composer tackles the prose of Norwegian Jon Fosse. In his trilogy, this writer of liquid and singing poetry dissects the psyche of Alida and Asle, a young couple on the run from the world. On their road to doom, the couple, a Bonnie and Clyde of Biblical dimensions, sow violence in spite of themselves, but also love and life: Alida will give birth to a little Sigvald before returning home, Asle will be hanged in Bjørgvin, an imaginary Bergen where Fosse locates his timeless parable. Peter Eötvös and his librettist Mari Mezei link the three short novels that make up the trilogy – Wakefulness, Olav’s Dreams and Weariness – in a continuous dialogue narration. After presenting his fascinating Makropulos Affair on our stage in 2020, Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó, whose film Pieces of a Woman premiered on Netflix last year, is back to set the stage for this narrative that floats between life and death. In Monika Pormale’s half-real, half-faery scenography, Mundruczó tries to save the characters from the waters endlessly engulfing them. For in Jon Fosse’s symbolic fjords of light and despair, water swallows everything, the rain, the sea, life and death. Co-commissioned by the Berlin Staatsoper Unter der Linden and the Grand Théâtre de Genève, Sleepless will be conducted by Peter Eötvös in person at the head of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. For the occasion, there will also be a mini Eötvös festival with the OSR, the Nouvelle Comédie and Contrechamps, the contemporary music ensemble of Geneva. Norwegian soprano Victoria Randem and Dutch tenor Linard Vrielink, in the main roles of the teenagers Alida and Asle, lead an intergenerational cast ranging from very young singers to the legendary artist Hanna Schwarz in the role of the Old Woman.