Performer: Annette Schönmüller

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.

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