Michel Friedman in conversation with well known personalities, from all walks of life, about the relevance to, and impact on our lives, and questions raised by certain operas during the season.
DEATH & Reimann's L'invisible
»And who's sitting there, there in our midst?« (Old man, act 1)
Aribert Reimann's L’invisible turns three plays by Maurice Maeterlinck into a poetic contemplation about the power of death. The characters are constantly confronted with the loss of something they thought real. Why's the process of ageing and dying still so difficult to face up to? Where do fears of our own transience come from? If you understand a bit of German, why not come and hear Michael Friedman talking about this with bestselling author Volker Kitz, who described the last years of his father's life, and dementia, in a sensitive way in his recently published essay Alte Eltern (Old Parents).
