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Fin de partie

libretto by György Kurtág · premiered 2018 · at La Scala

Fin de partie is a one-act opera by György Kurtág, set to a French libretto he himself adapted from the play of the same name (English title: Endgame) by Samuel Beckett and from Beckett's English-language poem Roundelay, which he uses at the start. Kurtág fully titled this work, his first opera, Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie: scènes et monologues, opéra en un acte. He dedicated it to the memory of "mon professeur Ferenc Farkas [and] mon ami Tamás Blum: qui, dans ma jeunesse, m'ont appri [sic] l'essentiel sur l'opéra [who, in my youth, taught me the essentials of opera]."

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