Antigone

Reimagined and recomposed by Silvio Buchmeier

Based on Arthur Honegger’s opera, with a libretto by Jean Cocteau after Sophocles. Private project proposal · In development

The project

A woman defies the king to bury her brother. Her act exposes a conflict between political authority, family loyalty and an order that reaches beyond human law.

Antigone brings Honegger and Cocteau’s concentrated tragedy into a contemporary sound world. Approximately thirty minutes of new composition extend the original’s forty-five-minute span, opening space for its characters, relationships and consequences to register. A transparent chamber ensemble, synthesizers and real-time sound transformation connect Honegger’s sharply articulated music with an electronic presence that embodies the unseen forces of the drama.

The goal is an evening that stimulates discussions about moral interpretations, political conflicts, and friction between generations. Antigone remains contradictory, and that is precisely where its relevance lies.