The Vienna State Opera will present Le Grand Macabre as part of its March 2026 season, with one performance on March 25. The production brings György Ligeti’s singular and provocative opera back to ...
György Ligeti's opera Le grand macabre portrays a society on the brink of an apocalypse. The story, taken from Michel de Ghelderode's play of the same name, is inspired by a surrealistic, absurd ...
No opera in history is better at being irreverent, raunchy and funny all at the same time, but there is one thing missing in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre– the yarn factor. Without characters to follow or ...
The UK Premiere of György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre by English National Opera was an operatic highlight of the early eighties. It’s now back at the Coliseum in a vastly different production by Catalan ...
“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 ...