A Quiet Place - Opera - Season 21/22 Programming - Opéra national de Paris

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    A Quiet Place

    By Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Wadsworth, adaptation de 2013

    Palais Garnier - from 09 to 30 March 2022

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  • Bernd Uhlig / OnP

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A Quiet Place

Palais Garnier - from 09 to 30 March 2022

Opera

A Quiet Place

By Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Wadsworth, adaptation de 2013

Palais Garnier - from 09 to 30 March 2022

1h35 no interval

Language : American English

Surtitle : French / English

  • Pre‑opening for the young : 7 March 2022

    Opening night : 9 March 2022

About

In few words:

A Quiet Place, composed in 1983 by Leonard Bernstein and reworked in 1986, was conceived as a sequel to Trouble in Tahiti. Three decades later, we re-encounter Sam, a failed father rejected by his two children. Dinah, his wife, has just died in a car accident and the family have gathered for her funeral. The pain of mourning reveals unspoken wounds. This work, deeply rooted in the society of the era and its accompanying taboos, is the last opera by a composer who constantly sought to renew operatic forms. A new version, adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland, was premiered in concert version in 2013 under the baton of Kent Nagano. The opera is being brought to the stage for the first time, and the Paris Opera has entrusted this project to Krzysztof Warlikowski, who focuses the story around the family and its secrets.

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  • First part 95 mn
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Backstage

  • Draw-me A Quiet Place

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    Draw-me A Quiet Place

  • Podcast A Quiet Place

    Podcast

    Podcast A Quiet Place

  • Genius or headstrong?

    Video

    Genius or headstrong?

Draw-me A Quiet Place

01:44’

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Draw-me A Quiet Place

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A Quiet Place, composed in 1983 by Leonard Bernstein and reworked in 1986, was conceived as a sequel to Trouble in Tahiti. Three decades later, we re-encounter Sam, a failed father rejected by his two children. Dinah, his wife, has just died in a car accident and the family have gathered for her funeral. The pain of mourning reveals unspoken wounds. This work, deeply rooted in the society of the era and its accompanying taboos, is the last opera by a composer who constantly sought to renew operatic forms. A new version, adapted by Garth Edwin Sunderland, was premiered in concert version in 2013 under the baton of Kent Nagano. The opera is being brought to the stage for the first time, and the Paris Opera has entrusted this project to Krzysztof Warlikowski, who focuses the story around the family and its secrets.  


Playlist

© Bernd Uhlig / OnP

Podcast A Quiet Place

07’

Podcast

Podcast A Quiet Place

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" - by France Musique

By Charlotte Landru-Chandès

"Dance! Sing! 7 minutes at the Paris Opera" offers original incursions into the season thanks to broadcasts produced by France Musique and the Paris Opera. For each opera or ballet production, Charlotte Landru-Chandès (opera) and Jean-Baptiste Urbain (dance), present the works and artists you are going to discover when you attend performances in our theatres.

© Vincent Pontet / OnP

Genius or headstrong?

05:53’

Video

Genius or headstrong?

Interview with Kent Nagano

By Solène Souriau

On the occasion of the premiere of A Quiet Place at the Palais Garnier, conductor Kent Nagano looks back on his discussions with Leonard Bernstein about the work and the musical forms with which the composer experimented. He also discusses the universal theme of family conflict running through the opera.  

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