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Work: Fin de partie

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ComposerKurtág, György (b. 1926)
PeriodContemporary
Year2014
Work typeOpera / Oratorio
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In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the Enescu Festival

Hilary Summers and Leonardo Cortellazzi in Fin de partie © Andrada Pavel
Bucharest’s temples of culture present rites of closure by Mozart, Kurtág and Bruckner… and a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana.
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Waiting for Kurtág: Fin de partie receives Berlin premiere

Laurent Naouri (Hamm) © Monika Rittershaus
Director Johannes Erath and conductor Alexander Soddy bring György Kurtág's first and only opera to the Staatsoper Unter den Linden, starting the year with a dash of Beckett.
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Perfect symbiosis of words and music in Fin de partie

György Kurtág’s long awaited opera Fin de partie gets a second run in Amsterdam after its La Scala premiere, with the same excellent cast, conductor and production team.

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The giving of gifts: Pierre-Laurent Aimard on György Kurtág

Pierre-Laurent Aimard with György Kurtág © Balint Hrotko | PENTATONE
As the idiosyncratic, laconic Hungarian composer approaches his 100th birthday, we talk to Pierre-Laurent Aimard about his decades-long relationship with György Kurtág, on his unique playfulness and gift-giving.