The world, as we know it, ended in May. At least that was the proposition of the New York Philharmonic. Building toward the end of his first year as the orchestra’s new music director, Alan Gilbert ...

“An exhilarating success, a brilliant presentation of Ligeti's commanding score and a disarming production.” This was the verdict of the New York Times after three sold-out performances of György ...

György Ligeti's opera Le grand macabre portrays a society on the brink of an apocalypse. The story, taken from Michel de Ghelderode's play of the same name, is inspired by a surrealistic, absurd ...

No opera in history is better at being irreverent, raunchy and funny all at the same time, but there is one thing missing in Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre– the yarn factor. Without characters to follow or ...

VIENNA, Austria – Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera "Le Grand Macabre" and his work on the soundtrack for Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A ...

LONDON (Reuters Life!) - It starts with a prelude of car horns and ends with the world being destroyed by a comet -- or possibly not. On top of that, a new staging of Hungarian composer Gyorgy ...

THe Hungarian expat gained acclaim for his work on the soundtrack to ‘2001.’ Composer Gyorgy Ligeti, who fled Hungary after the 1956 revolution and gained fame for his opera “Le Grand Macabre” and his ...

Like Pelléas et Mélisande, which appeared at the Barbican a year ago, this performance of Le grand macabre represented a collaboration between the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted now as then by ...

The UK Premiere of György Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre by English National Opera was an operatic highlight of the early eighties. It’s now back at the Coliseum in a vastly different production by Catalan ...

Few new productions have been so keenly anticipated as this one from Catalan theatre company La Fura dels Baus that opened the ENO’s new season last night. And it was hard not to be impressed by the ...