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.
as Walter Benjamin, singer
as Walter Benjamin, actor
as Asja Lacis
as Hannah Arendt
as Arthur Koestler
as Gershom Sholem
as Bertolt Brecht
as André Gide
as Max Horkheimer
as Mme Henny Gurland
as The Cabaret Singer
as Joseph Gurland
as Innkeeper
as The Doctor
as Actor-archivist
