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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...