Showing posts with label Beckett. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beckett. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Beckett's Opera

According to Le Monde, the French National Library has unearthed a little-performed opera based on Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape. Alas, the music, by Beckett's friend Marcel Mihalovici (1898-1985), is, according to Le Monde's critic, "entirely mediocre," a rather uninspired example of 1960s modern atonality, and a bitch (vacherie) to play.