Le Grand Macabre

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Le grand macabre at the Neue Oper Wien

Zwölftöner, 6th October

With sub-Ionesco doggerel for a libretto, a patchy score and a disjointed plot, it takes deft stage direction for farce and satire to blend credibly in Le grand macabre, Ligeti’s 1977 operatic spoof on doom-laden prophesizing.

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