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