Name: Le Grand Macabre
Start: 2021-06-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-06-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Národní divadlo (National Theatre)

Admin

Organization

Dirigat

Jiří Rožeň

Sänger

Mezzosopran

Arnheidur Eiriksdottir

Armando

Sopran

Tereza Štěpánková

Armanda

Tenor

Aleksander Kravets

Piet von Pils

Bariton

Nathan Berg

Nekrotzar

Bass

Miloš Horák

Astramadors

Andrea Tögel Kalivodová

Mescalina

Hagen Matzeit

Prinz Gogo

Eir Inderhaug

Venus

Sprechrolle

Jiří Hájek

Schwarzer Minister

Josef Moravec

Weisser Minister

Chef der Geheimen Politischen Polizei

Andrey Styrkul

Schobiak

Dalibor Pavelka

Michael Skalický

Ruffiak

Libor Novák

Pavel Borek

Schabernak

Tomáš Bartůněk

Regie

Nigel Lowery

Richard Hein

Lichtgestaltung

Lothar Baumgarten

Kostümbild

Bühnenbild

Videogestaltung

Thilo David Heins

Dramaturgie

Ondřej Hučín

Chordirektion

Adolf Melichar

National Theatre Prague

Others

The State Opera Chorus

Orchestra

State Opera Orchestra

Deutsch

Le Grand Macabre -  (Der große Makaber)

Prag

Tschechien

Národní divadlo (National Theatre)

Public

Der große Makaber

Englisch

Genehmigt

Le Grand Macabre Ligeti

Loosely based on the Belgian avant-garde dramatist Michel de Ghelderode’s play La balade du grand macabre, Ligeti provocatively branded his adaptation “anti-anti-opera”. Le Grand Macabre presents an extremely bizarre apocalyptic vision of a world gone mad, teeming with characters of such telling names as Nekrotzar, Piet The Pot, Clitoria, Spermando.

Ligeti’s spectacular operatic fresco, set in a fictitious city bearing an equally telling name, Breughelland, not only shocks by featuring harsh, spine-chilling and perverse images, it is also striking in terms of the score, with the musical idiom encompassing conventional instruments, but also giving scope to a large variety of unprecedented sounds, produced by car-horns, electric doorbells, a sledgehammer, an alarm clock, paper bags, a tray full of crockery, a saucepan, a pistol and other items.

Le Grand Macabre had its world premiere in Stockholm in 1978. Later on, Ligeti made considerable revisions to his piece in preparation for a production at the Salzburger Festspiele in 1997. The second version of the “anti-anti-opera” will be staged in Prague by the versatile British director and designer Nigel Lowery. The music will be explored by the conductor Jiří Rožeň, a young Czech rising star.

English

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Besetzung

Produktionsteam

Ensemble