Le Grand Macabre

»An exhilarating success, a brilliant performance of Ligeti’s daunting score and a disarming production.« That was the New York Times’ verdict after three sold-out performances of György Ligeti’s opera »Le Grand Macabre« – a milestone of modern music theatre, which Alan Gilbert, in collaboration with Doug Fitch, producer Edouard Getaz and Giants Are Small, presented in New York for the first time in May 2010. As part of the Hamburg International Music Festival – which has a special focus on Ligeti’s music this year – the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra now brings the much-vaunted production to Hamburg with a version specially adapted for the Elbphilharmonie.