The bleakness of György Kurtág’s opera “Fin de partie” (“Endgame”), now playing at the Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier, could be a commentary on that theater’s ornamental excess: The opera’s four aged ...

“Fin de Partie,” an opera of “Endgame,” will be sung at the Palais Garnier in French, the language it was written in. By David Belcher That grim and giddy slice of existentialism called Samuel Beckett ...

The final masterpiece of twentieth-century music had its première last month, at La Scala, in Milan. “Samuel Beckett: Fin de Partie,” an operatic version of Beckett’s “Endgame” by the Hungarian ...