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Le Grand Macabre

05/12/2019

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2hrs 1min

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Music

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

STORY

“An exhilarating success, a brilliant presentation of Ligeti's commanding score and a disarming production.” This was the verdict of the New York Times after three sold-out performances of György Ligeti's opera “Le Grand Macabre”, with which Alan Gilbert, in collaboration with director Doug Fitch, brought this milestone of modern music theater to New York for the first time in May 2010. For the Hamburg International Music Festival - which focuses on Ligeti's music - the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra is now bringing the highly acclaimed production to Hamburg in a version adapted for the Elbphilharmonie. “Le Grand Macabre” is a grotesque parable on the downfall of humanity, ‘an opera about the existential crisis in the modern world, about the search for the meaning of life - with all its nonsense and craziness’, states Alan Gilbert. It is no coincidence that this pitch-black musical theater spectacle is the most frequently performed contemporary opera in the world.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Elizabeth Watts
  • Marta Fontanals-Simmons
  • Mark Schowalter
  • Mark Schowalter
  • Wilbur Pauley

    INFORMATION

      Production Companies

    • Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

      Production Countries

    • Germany

    LANGUAGES

      Cast

      Elizabeth Watts

      Amanda

      Marta Fontanals-Simmons

      Amando

      Mark Schowalter

      Piet vom Fass

      Mark Schowalter

      Nekrotzar

      Wilbur Pauley

      Astradamors

      Heidi Melton

      Mescalina

      Claire de Sévigné

      Venus

      Anthony Roth Costanzo

      Duke Go-Go

      John Relyea

      Black Minister

      Andrew Dickinson

      White Minister