'LE GRAND MACABRE' by LIGETI Complete La Fura dels Baus en libretto SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL
SUBTITULOS EN ESPAÑOL
ENGLISH LIBRETTO BY GYÖRGY LIGETI: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/audiosrc...
DEUTSCH Broschüre, SPANISCH-Übersetzung (GERMAN Libretto, SPANISH Translation):
AKT I: http://kareol.es/obras/elgranmacabro/...
AKT II: http://kareol.es/obras/elgranmacabro/...
GYÖRGY LIGETI [1923 - 2006]
'Le Grand Macabre' [1974-77, rev. 1996] Anti-Anti-Opera into Two Acts and Four Scenes. Libretto by György Ligeti in collaboration with Michael Meschke, based on a work by Michel de Ghelderode, 1934 play, 'La balade Du Grand Macabre'.
A co-production of Gran Teatre del Liceu, Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie, Opera di Roma, and English National Opera rec. live from 'GranTeatre del Liceu', Barcelona, Spain, November 2011.
"It is farce, theater of the absurd, but also biting political satire. Ligeti of course had suffered greatly under both Nazism and Communism and so found political satire a logical theme for his Opera.
This production has divided critics and they have either praised it or panned it. One wonders what Ligeti himself would have made of it."
For his Opera, Ligeti has borrowed from older music forms and operatic conventions and quoted or referred to such diverse themes as Offenbach’s Can-can and the bass line opening of the finale of Beethoven’s 'Eroica' Symphony."
The central subject of the Opera is mortality and its central character is Death, in the form of the character Nekrotzar. Set in an imaginary 'Breughelland', a country derived from Breughel's paintings, the Opera shows a drunken common man, Piet the Pot, and the sinistre Grand Macabre, Nekrotzar, who appears to announce the coming end of the world to two lovers, Amanda and Amando. But in a land ruled by eros, alcohol and corruption, his plan to unleash the Apocalypse bursts like a soap bubble. The people continue to lead their lives as before and refuse to be frightened by thoughts of death and a dark future…
Nekrotzar then kills Mescalin, who has desired a more energetic sexual partner than her astrologer husband. She accompanies him and Piet to the Palace of the young Prince Go- Go, scene of conflicting politicians. "
= OPERA SYNOPSIS in this Archive:
= http://operaen.no/en/Performances/Arc...
(LIVE REC)
=PERFORMERS:
=Piet the Pot: Chris Merritt (The drunken a sort of narrator)
=Amando: Inés Moraleda/ Amanda: Ana Puche (Lovers, Spermando and Clitoria in Ligeti’s original version)
=Nekrotzar: Werner Van Mechelen (Death, Le grand macabre)
=Astradamors: Frode Olsen (Husband of Mescalina)
=Mescalina: Ning Liang (Wife of Astradamors)
=Venus/ Gepopo: Barbara Hannigan (The goddess/ Chief of the secret police)
=Prince Go-Go: Brian Asawa;
=White Minister: Francisco Vas;
=Black Minister: Simon Butteriss;
=Ruffiak: Gabriel Diap;
=Schablack: Miquel Rosales;
=Schabernack: Ramon Grau
(Most of the characters declaim their parts with a combination of singing and speaking, parlando rather than Sprechstimme, in the German sense)
- Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu/Michael Boder ;
- Chorus Master: José Luís Basso;
- Stage Direction: Àlex Ollé (La Fura dels Baus) in collaboration with Valentina Carrasco;
- Set Designer: Alfons Flores;
- Video: Franc Aleu;
- Costume Designer: Lluc Castells;
- Lighting Designer: Peter van Praet;
- Video Director: Xavi Bové
= LA FURA DELS BAUS: http://www.lafura.com/
= ÀLEX OLLÉ : http://www.alexolle.com/
= WIKIPEDIA:
= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligeti
= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le_Grand...
