LE GRAND MACABRE Full Opera de LIGETI english libretto

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GYÖRGY SÁNDOR LIGETI [*1923 ~2006] • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligeti • 'Fear not to die, good people all! • No one knows when his hour will fall; • And when it comes then, Let it be! • Farewell, till then live merrily.' • 'LE GRAND MACABRE' (1974 - 77 revised version 1996), Opera in Two Acts in Four Scenes, for Soloists, Choir and Orchestra. Libretto by Ligeti in collaboration with Michael Meschke. (freely adapted from Michel de Ghelderode' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_..., play La Balade du Grand Macabre . • PRESENT EDITION: • The Philharmonia Orchestra • https://www.philharmonia.co.uk/ • London Voices • https://www.london-voices.co.uk/ • Cond: Esa-Pekka Salonen • https://www.esapekkasalonen.com/ • FIRST ACT: Prelude for first scene - First Scene - Interlude 1 - Second Scene • SECOND ACT: Prelude for third scene - Third Scene - Interlude 2 - Fourth Scene • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Gran... • PREMIERE: April 12, 1978 Stockholm, Königliche Oper (S) · Conductor: Elgar Howarth · Staging: Michael Meschke · Costumes: Aliute Meczies · Stage design: Aliute Meczies • The Original Libretto was written in German as 'Der grosse Makaber' • LIBRETTOS: • GERMAN, Spanish translation • https://kareol.es/obras/elgranmacabro/... • https://kareol.es/obras/elgranmacabro/... • ENGLISH (Link for PDF: Opera in four acts to a Libretto by Michael Meschke and György Ligeti, freely adapted from Michel de Ghelderode’s play La Balade du Grand Macabre New York Philharmonic New York Premiere May 27–29, 2010) • https://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc... • DESCRIPTION: • «The Opera takes place in the completely degenerate but recklessly flourishing dukedom of Breugelland. […] The Opera’s main character is Nekrozar, the 'Grand Macabre', a sinister, demagogic and dubious figure with an unshakable sense of mission. • He maintains that he is the figure of Death who has come to Breugelland in order to wipe out the entire population and thereby also the whole of mankind with the aid of a Comet that very day at midnight. • Although he enters the ducal Palace with great pomp to proclaim his Apocalyptic threats with supreme confidence, he becomes caught up in the maelstrom of the all too worldly goings-on of the people of Breugelland and, with the aid of the court Astrologer and his drinking partner Piet vom Fass, becomes so inebriated […] that his loftily declaimed proclamation on the imminent end of the world falls totally flat. • The intoxicated people of Breugelland believe themselves to have already arrived in heaven, but it gradually becomes clear that life in heaven is identical to that on earth. Everyone is still alive after all and only Nekrozar, the 'Grand Macabre', dies from grief that he has failed in his crusade. • If he were Death himself, then Death is now dead, eternal life has begun and earth is at one with heaven: the Last Judgement has taken place. Should he however merely have been a conceited charlatan and a dark and false messiah and his mission merely empty words, life will continue as normal – one day everyone will die, but not today, not immediately.’ (György Ligeti; source: Salzburg Festival 1997)» • THE PRODUCTION OF DEN NORSKE OPERA BALLETT, INFO: • https://operaen.no/en/Performances/Arc... • https://operaen.no/en/] • ART COVERS : Painting: Detail from the Polymorphously Perverse, Garden of Earthly Delights, Ecclesia's Paradise , Triptych (right wing, detail c.1500), by Hieronymous Bosch. • MORE INFO ABOUT THE PRESENT PRODUCTION (1999) • https://www.allmusic.com/album/ligeti-... • Association: https://www.boschbruegel.com/ • https://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/ • • -

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