Benjamin, dernière nuit

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.

• Régis DebrayWriter
• John FulljamesDirector
• Michel TabachnikOriginal Music Composer

• Jean-Noël BriendWalter Benjamin, singer
• Sava LolovWalter Benjamin, actor
• Michaela KuštekováAsja Lacis
• Michaela SelingerHannah Arendt
• Charles RiceArthur Koestler
• Scott WildeGershom Sholem
• Jeff MartinBertolt Brecht
• Gilles RagonAndré Gide
• Kàroly SzemerèdyMax Horkheimer
• Elsa Rigmor ThiemannMme Henny Gurland
• Goele De RaedtThe Cabaret Singer
• Baptiste MansotJoseph Gurland