World premiere of Kurtag’s Fin de Partie awarded at International Opera Awards
György Kurtág’s Fin de Partie in Milan won the prize for the best world premiere at the International Opera Awards in London late on Monday.
Fin de Partie was Kurtág’s first opera, commissioned and staged in 2018 by the Teatro della Scala, Milano, Italy.
He adapted Samuel Beckett’s play Endgame as a one-act piece.
At the International Opera Awards gala, Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian won the prize for best female singer and US tenor Charles Castronovo was named best male singer. The prize for best opera company went to the Belgian Opera Vlaaderen.
The International Opera Awards was founded by billionaire philanthropist Harry Hyman in 2012.
Source: MTI
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