Le Grand Macabre

Le Grand Macabre (2019)

Music

“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

Casts

	Elizabeth Watts as Amanda
	Marta Fontanals-Simmons as Amando
	Mark Schowalter as Piet vom Fass
	Mark Schowalter as Nekrotzar
	Wilbur Pauley as Astradamors
	Heidi Melton as Mescalina
	Claire de Sévigné as Venus
	Anthony Roth Costanzo as Duke Go-Go
	John Relyea as Black Minister
	Andrew Dickinson as White Minister
	Audrey Luna as Head of the Gestapo
	Rob Besserer as Atmosphericist
	Alan Gilbert as Conductor

Crew