Overview

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.

Top Cast

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Jean-Noël Briend

Walter Benjamin, singer

Sava Lolov

Walter Benjamin, actor

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Michaela Kušteková

Asja Lacis

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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

Goele De Raedt

The Cabaret Singer

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Baptiste Mansot

Joseph Gurland