Event listing: Le Grand Macabre | MuseumsQuartier Wien: Halle E | Sat 6 Oct 2012 at 19:30

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MuseumsQuartier Wien: Halle EMuseumsplatz 1, Vienna, 1070, Austria

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Programme

Ligeti, György (1923-2006)

Performers

Neue Oper Wien
Wiener Kammerchor
Amadeus Ensemble Wien
Walter Kobera	Conductor
Carlos Wagner	Director
Michael Grohotolsky	Choirmaster / chorus director
Martin Achrainer	Bass-baritone	Nekrozar
Brian Galliford	Tenor	Piet the Pot
Nicholas Isherwood	Bass	Astradamors
Annette Schönmüller	Mezzo-soprano	Mescalina
Arno Raunig	Countertenor	Prince Go-Go
Júlia Bányai	Soprano	Amanda
Anna Manske	Mezzo-soprano	Amando
Jennifer Yoon	Soprano	Chief of the Gepopo

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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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