Le Grand Macabre

Archive Listings for Le Grand Macabre

T1909481187 (ENO09) Running time 2hrs 15mins. New production supported by the 20/20 GroupProducer English National Opera. Producer La Monnaie Brussels. Producer Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona. Producer Teatro dell' Opera di Roma. Conductor Baldur Bronnimann. Director Alex Olle. Director Valentina Carrasco. Design Alfons Flores. Design Franc Aleu (video). Costume Lluc Castells. Lighting Peter van Praet. Translation Geoffrey Skelton. Performer Susanna Andersson (Venus/Gepopo). Performer Susan Bickley (Mescalina). Performer Andrew Watts (Prince Go-Go). Performer Ablinger-Sperhacke (Pot Wolfgang). Performer Pavlo Hunka (Nekrotzer). Performer Frode Olsen (Astradamors). Performer Daniel Norman (White Minister). Performer Simon Butteriss (Black Minister). Performer Rebecca Bottone (Amanda). Performer Frances Bourne (Amando).
17 Sep 09 to 9 Oct 09	London Coliseum, West End :: V376 listing details L830847402
Great Performers 2003/2004 - T01008540567 Conductor Michael Boder. Performer Caroline Stein (Venus/Gepopo). Performer Willard White (Nekrotzar). Performer Graham Clark (Piet the Pot). Performer Frans Fieslier (Black Minister). Performer Johannette Zomer (Amanda). Performer Hanne Fischer (Amando). Performer Hilary Summers (Mescalina). Performer Dario Suss (Astradamors). Performer Steven Cole (White Minister). Performer David Walker (Prince Go-Go). Company BBC Singers.
19 Oct 03	Barbican Centre, West End :: V371 listing details L0935224947

Details

Opera or Operetta :: Set in an imaginary country (Breughel Land) this opera has a surreal plot which features sex, drinking, economic crisis, politics and corruption with an over-riding theme of death and the end of the world. But when the end of the world arrives, as announced by Nekrotzar, the only person to die is Death himself. First performed 1978.

Music

Gyorgy Ligeti