7.9.2025 The Romanian creation of Fin de Partie with the 4 singers of the Milanese premiere and the Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra was a huge success !
Press and public were unanimous to praise the concertante version of Kurtág’s opera, at the Romanian Atheneum.
The key role played by Arnaud Arbet in the genesis of the opera was related in a double interview of György Kurtág and Arnaud Arbet and in an article of the magazine of the Festival.

Photo Andrada Pavel

Double interview of György Kurtág and Arnaud Arbet (Budapest, April 2025, Paradigma Film for George Enescu International Festival)

Interview Irina Vasilescu for the magazine of the George Enescu International Festival

PRESS

« The Enescu Festival had done well to secure the services of Arbet, who acted as the composer’s musical assistant for four years prior during the composition of Fin de partie. (…) He surely knows the piece better than anyone save Kurtág himself, and (after a week of rehearsal) he coaxed the local musicians of the George Enescu Philharmonic into playing of palpable commitment. » Backtrack. https://bachtrack.com/fr_FR/review-kurtag-fin-de-partie-honeck-george-enescu-international-festival-bucharest-september-2025/amp=1

« In György Kurtág’s opera ‘Fin de Partie’, (…) the George Enescu Philharmonic Orchestra under Arnaud Arbet sounds far more vital and lush, and thus overall more attuned to the difficult opus than the Staatskapelle Berlin, which played with analytically dry beauty at the premiere at the Lindenoper in winter 2025. » NMZ.
https://www.nmz.de/kritik/oper-konzert/weltoffene-klassik-party-das-27-enescu-festival-bukarest-reiht-hoehepunkte

« Loud applause rang out in the Athenaeum hall ». Liternet.
https://agenda.liternet.ro/articol/30538/Marcel-Frandes/Umbre-ale-sinelui-de-odinioara-Opera-in-concert-Fin-du-Partie-Sfarsitul-jocului-de-Gyorgy-Kurtag-la-Ateneu-Festival-Enescu-2025.html

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