On the 12th April 2022 at Müpa Budapest
In the framework of Bartók Spring International Art Weeks
concert version of SLEEPLESS
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?”
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Peter Eötvös
More info about the concert and tickets at Müpa >
More info about the piece >
Interview with Peter Eötvös (in Hungarian) >
More info about the event at Bartók Spring International Art Weeks (in Hungarian) >
Review about the swiss premiere (la croix.com – in French) >
Review about the swiss premiere (rts.ch – in French) >
Review about the swiss premiere (classiquenews.com – in French) >
More info about Bartók Spring International Art Weeks (in English) >