Le Grand Macabre

Story

Synopsis

“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.

Director

Doug Fitch

Writers

György Ligeti

Language

English

Country

Germany

Release date

12 May 2019

Ensemble

Cast

• Elizabeth Watts

  Amanda

• Marta Fontanals-Simmons

  Amando

• Mark Schowalter

  Piet vom Fass

• 

  Wilbur Pauley

  Astradamors

• Heidi Melton

  Mescalina

• Claire de Sévigné

  Venus

• 

  Anthony Roth Costanzo

  Duke Go-Go

• 

  John Relyea

  Black Minister

• Andrew Dickinson

  White Minister

• Audrey Luna

  Head of the Gestapo

• Rob Besserer

  Atmosphericist

• Alan Gilbert

  Conductor