Croatia wins 150k modern opera award
mainThey will be crowing and in Zagreb tonight after winning the 150,000 Euro Fedora award for best modern opera – and it hasn’t even been staged.
The winning opera is Kein Licht, with text by the Austrian Nobel Laureate Elfriede Jelinek and music by the French composer Philippe Manoury (pictured).
A co-pro between Croatian National Opera and the Paris Opera Comique, it will be staged next year in Paris, Zagreb and Luxembourg. More here.
Presumably the title is some kind of witless pun on Stockhausen’s ‘Licht’.