Le Grand Macabre: György Ligeti

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Enjoy Le Grand Macabre at the Gran Teatre del Liceu. Opera in two acts with libretto and music by György Ligeti in collaboration with Michael Meschk, based on a work by Michel de Ghelderode.

Le Grand Macabre, by the Hungarian composer György Ligeti, is based on La Ballade du Grand Macabre by Michel de Ghelderode. From its first showing in Stockholm in 1978 it attained the highest echelons of the contemporary operatic repertoire.

Since then numerous productions have been staged in the world's leading opera houses. De Ghelderode's play (1934), inspired by medieval dances of death and Flemish painting (Pieter Brueghel and Hieronymus Bosch), was converted by librettist Michael Meschke and the composer himself into a scintillating and exuberant work belonging to the theatre of the absurd. Highly charged with ironic and grotesque elements, it is concerned with the end of the world and inhabited by Grand Guignol‐type characters. Ligeti himself called it a «comic apocalypse». The music is a brilliant collage of styles (ranging from Monteverdi to Wagner and Verdi, via Beethoven and jazz). A mood of wild aggressiveness alternates with lyricism, while the enlarged orchestra features some unusual additions (motor horns and percussion instruments).

First performed in Stockholm on 12 April 1978. Revised version premiered in Salzburg on 28 July 1997. This marks the first performance in Spain.

Forty‐five minutes before each performance, an information session about the opera, open to all members of the audience, will be held in the Foyer.

Co‐production: Gran Teatre del Liceu / Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie / Opera di Roma / English National Opera

Conductor: Michael Boder
Stage direction: Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus)
Scenography: Alfons Flores
Costumes: Lluc Castells
Lighting: Peter van Praet

Cast:
Bernd Uhlig, Werner van Mechelen, Chris Merritt, Frode Olsen, Barbara Hannigan, Ning Liang, Brian Asawa, Martin Winkler, Ana Puche, Inés Moraleda, Francisco Vas.



In some areas of the Gran Teatre del Liceu it is possible to be seated with a partially obstructed view of the stage. The Gran Teatre del Liceu recommends Zone 2 for the finest and completely unobstructed view of the performance. The stage is not visable from seats starting in row 2 of Zone 8.  A monitor is provided for following the performance in this section. Only available for operas. Anhören Umschrift