Music Review - Philharmonic in ‘Le Grand Macabre’ at Avery Fisher Hall - NYTimes.com
Saturday, May 29th, 2010We recommend:
What had sold out were trey performances of Gyorgy Ligeti’s musically venturesome opera “Le Grand Macabre,” a bleakly satiric taradiddle set in an “anytime” 100, kickoff performed in Stockholm in 1978. In the composition a apparitional, flourishing bod who proclaims himself Death comes to the effete, unworried princedom of Breughelland and announces his intent to ruin the mankind at the virgule of midnight. Presenting a arranged output of this ambitious modernist study was Mr. Gilbert’s virtually challenging labor for his get-go flavor as the Philharmonic’s medicine manager.
