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Death has many faces. Appearing as comforter, seducer, sadist. It shines in the dark and hides in the light.

Aribert Reimann’s L’invisible turned three Maeterlinck plays into a poetic meditation on the power of death: L’intruse shows a mother, struggling to survive childbirth. While most of her relatives fail to grasp the seriousness of the situation, her blind grandfather’s the only one to register the arrival of an invisible stranger. Intérieur starts with a young woman’s suicide. Two men, expected to break the news to her family, wonder whether it wouldn’t be kinder to hide the bitter truth. La mort de Tintagiles harks back to a dismal fairy tale: an old Queen lures her grandson Tintagiles back to her kingdom, to murder him. He puts up a fight, helped by his sisters, but vanishes without trace in his grandmother’s mysterious castle.

EPSG:4326

Erik van Heyningen

Baritone

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Mar 30, 2025

L’invisible · Oper Frankfurt

Future and recently performed repertoire

Aglovale/Old man/Grandfather in La mort de Tintagiles by Loeffler

Oper Frankfurt

Aglovale/Old man/Grandfather in L’intruse by Reimann

Oper Frankfurt

Aglovale/Old man/Grandfather in Intérieur by Reimann

Oper Frankfurt

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