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FULL KAFKA FRAGMENTE (Kurtag) Orléans 2007 Salome Kammer
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Kafka-Fragmente
- Composer: Kurtag György
- Libretto: based on letters and diary by Franz Kafka Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Carré Saint-Vincent, Scène Nationale, Orléans, France
- Recorded: December 13, 2007
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Salome Kammer
- Conductor:
- Orchestra: Carolin Widmann, VIOLIN
- Stage Director: Antoine Gindt
- Stage Designer: Klaus Grünberg
- Costume Designer: Gwendoline Bouget
- Lighting Designer: Klaus Grünberg
Information about the Recording
- Published by: T&M - Théâtre & Musique
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Based on short texts by Franz Kafka, taken mainly from his diary or his letters to Milena, György Kurtág has composed a score that is both intimate and strong, extremely figurative; an hour of music for a soprano and a violin – unique in the history of music – made up of 40 fragments. A few words, sometimes a few sentences, even brief stories, each become a microcosm.
To stage this work initially intended for the concert, Antoine Gindt imagined a theater where this dream of Kafka would occur. An inverted theater where the problem of address is constantly raised, the richness and tension of the relationships imagined by the composer translated theatrically into a sophisticated balance. The abysses opened by Kafka’s aphorisms command the movement of bodies in an ever-renewed gesture: violinist Carolin Widmann and soprano Salome Kammer thus unfold Kurtág’s opus 24 in extraordinary intimacy and depth.
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