Performer: Annette Schönmüller

Das Theater Gera gedenkt mit einer eindrucksvollen Inszenierung Weinbergs Die Passagierin den Opfern des Nationalsozialismus.

Heinz Holliger’s Lunea, which recently premiered at the Zurich Opera House, is “not an opera”, or so the ground-breaking Swiss composer contends.

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.