The libretto by Guillaume Métayer is based on the eponymous 1989 novel by the Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai, who, as the narrator of the apocalypse, created a black parable about the contemporary situation in Eastern Europe. The French composer Marc-André Dalbavie is considered a representative of spectral music. His works shape the process of opening up contemporary music to different musical expressions. The importance of timbre, as well as the sensory experience at the heart of all his work, is also a characteristic feature of this piece. Hungarian director David Marton has developed a film opera for the premiere, in which the lines between reality and fiction blur

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Melancholy of Resistance - A filmic opera (2024) by Marc-André Dalbavie
Text by Guillaume Métayer in collaboration with David Marton after the novel by László Krasznahorkai
Commissioned by Staatsoper Unter den Linden
In French language with German and English surtitles