Krapp, ou, La dernière bande Krapp, ou, La dernière bande Krapp, ou, La dernière bande (English: "The Last Tape", German: "Krapp, oder Das letzte Band") is a chamber opera in one act by Marcel Mihalovici with a libretto by Samuel Beckett. The libretto is based on Beckett's 1958 play "Krapp's Last Tape", and large portions of the play's script were lifted for use in the libretto. Like the play, the opera is a monologue with the only character being that of Krapp. The opera was commissioned jointly by the Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française and the Bielefeld Opera, Germany. From the very beginning the opera's libretto has existed
Waiting for Godot political and religious interpretation", wrote Normand Berlin in a tribute to the play in Autumn 1999, "with Beckett himself placed in different schools of thought, different movements and 'ism's. The attempts to pin him down have not been successful, but the desire to do so is natural when we encounter a writer whose minimalist art reaches for bedrock reality. 'Less' forces us to look for 'more', and the need to talk about "Godot" and about Beckett has resulted in a steady outpouring of books and articles. Throughout "Waiting for Godot", the audience may encounter religious, philosophical, classical, psychoanalytical and biographical