Eötvös Péter: Sleepless (Álmatlanság) / BARTÓK TAVASZ 2022

Alida: Victoria Randem

Asle: Linard Vrielink

Mother / Midwife: Katharina Kammerloher

Old woman: Hanna Schwarz

Girl: Sarah Defrise

Innkeeper: Jan Martiník

Man in black: Tómas Tómasson

Boatman: Roman Trekel

Jeweller: Siyabonga Maqungo

Asleik: Arttu Kataja

Sextet: Samantha Britt, Alexandra Ionis, Rowan Hellier, Kristín Anna Guðmundsdóttir, Kirsten-Josefine Grützmacher, Alexandra Yangel

Six fishermen: Matthew Peña, Sotiris Charalampous, Fermin Basterra, Jaka Mihelač, Rory Green, Jonas Böhm

Featuring: Hungarian National Philharmonic

Conductor: Péter Eötvös

Music assistant: Antony Shelley

Commissioned by the Berlin Staatsoper and based on the first novella in Jon Fosse’s Trilogy, the piece is an “opera ballad, whose protagonists are two teenagers who expect a child,” said Péter Eötvös. “But they have nothing and their future is hopeless, while they cannot expect help from the adults around them. Whenever the boy finds there is no other way he can improve the position of the girl and the future child, he makes someone who has shunned them disappear. He commits three murders and is eventually hanged. And here comes the main question of the opera: can a teenage boy kill those who deny them help in order to save his family?”