Performer: Amadeus Ensemble Wien

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.

Schostakowitschs geniales Jugendwerk Die Nase in einer prägnanten Aufführung an der Kammeroper in Wien.