Fin de partie is a one-act opera by György Kurtág, set to a French-language libretto adapted by the composer from the play Endgame (French title: Fin de partie) by Samuel Beckett, with the inclusion of a setting of Beckett's English-language poem "Roundelay" at the start of the opera.
[1] Kurtág fully titled this work, his first opera,[2] Samuel Beckett: Fin de partie: scènes et monologues, opéra en un acte.
Kurtág dedicated the opera to the memory of "mon professeur Ferenc Farkas and of mon ami Tamás Blum [hu]": qui, dans ma jeunesse, m'ont appri (sic) l'essentiel sur l'opéra [who, in my youth, taught me the essentials of opera].
[6] Kurtág did not attend the world premiere performance because his frail health rendered him unable to travel from Budapest to Milan.
[1][2] The setting is a house by the sea, where four people reside: The tensions between the four characters exasperate each of them: All four wait for an end to the inertia and claustrophobia of their situation.