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

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Direction d'orchestre

Jiří Rožeň

Chanteur

Mezzo-soprano

Arnheiður Eiríksdóttir

Amando

Soprano

Tereza Štěpánková

Amanda

Ténor

Aleksander Kravets

Piet le pot

Baryton

Nathan Berg

Spermando

Basse

Miloš Horák

Astradamors

Andrea Tögel Kalivodová

Mescaline

Hagen Matzeit

Prince Go-Go

Eir Inderhaug

Venus

Rôle parlant

Jiří Hájek

Ministre du Black-Party

Josef Moravec

Ministre du White-Party

Le chef de la Gepopo

Andrey Styrkul

Schobiak

Dalibor Pavelka

Michael Skalický

Ruffiak

Libor Novák

Pavel Borek

Schabernak

Tomáš Bartůněk

Mise en scène

Nigel Lowery

Richard Hein

Lumières

Lothar Baumgarten

Costumes

Décors

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Thilo David Heins

Dramaturgie

Ondřej Hučín

Direction de choeur

Adolf Melichar

National Theatre Prague

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The State Opera Chorus

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State Opera Orchestra

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Prague

Tchéquie

Národní divadlo (National Theatre)

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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

Le grand macabre by Ligeti, Du (2021/2021), Dirigé par Nigel Lowery,, Chef d'orchestre Jiří Rožeň, Richard Hein, Národní divadlo (National Theatre), Prague, Tchéquie

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