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In these sacred halls: a long Sunday at the Enescu Festival
Bucharest’s temples of culture present rites of closure by Mozart, Kurtág and Bruckner… and a fleeting glimpse of Nirvana.
Perfect symbiosis of words and music in Fin de partie
György Kurtág’s long awaited opera Fin de partie gets a second run in Amsterdam after its La Scala premiere, with the same excellent cast, conductor and production team.
Beckett at La Scala: world première of Kurtág's Fin de partie
Never before has human impotence been so cruelly portrayed on stage.
Le Grand Macabre: surreal, madcap, sublime
Simon Rattle leads the LSO and a fine chorus and cast of soloists in Ligeti's masterpiece: surreal, madcap but touching the sublime.
The end of the world. Or something: Ligeti's Le grand macabre at the Norwegian National Opera
The world ended yesterday. Possibly. It probably didn’t, but the facts are still kind of fuzzy.György Ligeti’s only opera, Le grand macabre is a strange piece. The story is straightforward enough: Nekrotzar, a Death-like figure, travels around the world of Breughelland warning its citizens of impending doom – a giant comet will destroy Earth at midnight.
Les Arts estrena Fin de partie, de Kurtág en España
Tras haberse programado solo en Milán y Ámsterdam, llega a España, propiciado por Les Arts, el estreno de Fin de partie, de Kurtág.