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classical music, opera, theatre
Péter Eötvös: Sleepless - Hungarian premiere
12 April 2022, Tuesday
5 pm - 7:40 pm
one interval
Béla Bartók National Concert Hall
Produced by Müpa Budapest
Bartók Spring

Commissioned by the Berlin Staatsoper and based on the first novella in Jon Fosse's Trilogy, the piece is an "opera ballad, whose protagonists are two teenagers who expect a child,” said Péter Eötvös. "But they have nothing and their future is hopeless, while they cannot expect help from the adults around them. Whenever the boy finds there is no other way he can improve the position of the girl and the future child, he makes someone who has shunned them disappear. He commits three murders and is eventually hanged. And here comes the main question of the opera: can a teenage boy kill those who deny them help in order to save his family?”

Presented by: Müpa Budapest

Conductor:

Péter Eötvös

Cast:

Alida Victoria Randem
Asle Linard Vrielink
Mother / Midwife Katharina Kammerloher
Old woman Hanna Schwarz
Girl Sarah Defrise
Innkeeper Jan Martiník
Man in black Tómas Tómasson
Boatman Roman Trekel
Jeweller Siyabonga Maqungo
Asleik Arttu Kataja
Sextet Samantha Britt
Alexandra Ionis
Rowan Hellier
Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir
Kirsten-Josefine Grützmacher
Alexandra Yangel
Six fishermen Matthew Peña
Sotiris Charalampous
Fermin Basterra
Jaka Mihelač
Rory Green
Jonas Böhm

Featuring:

Hungarian National Philharmonic

Creators:

Music assistant Antony Shelley
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