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	Dame blanche - Apparition, esprit, fantome et revenant. La Dame Blanche du Québec
		Les lieux d'apparition sont situés près de croisements de routes et de ponts, endroits traditionnellement choisis par les créatures surnaturelles pour se manifester (ces lieux symbolisent un "passage" entre l'Ici-bas et l'Au-delà); enfin, la "femme en blanc" correspond à une figure classique d'être fantastique du folklore européen".
		Après les durs travaux du jour, ils se rendaient parfois jusqu'en haut du grand sault, là où on voit toute l'île d'Orléans qui ressemble à un gros poisson couché au milieu du fleuve.
		Le 20 mai 1981, quatre jeunes montpelliérains âgés de 17 à 25 ans vers 0h30, après s'être promené sur les quais de Palavas et avoir bu un coup, aperçoivent sur le bord de la route, une auto-stoppeuse d'une cinquantaine d'années portant un imperméable ainsi qu'un foulard blancs.
	www.dark-stories.com /dame-blanche.htm (1335 words)

	The Budapest Sun Online - Story page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A number of somber-themed concerts marked Hungary's Day of the Dead, November 1: Ligeti's opera Le Grand Macabre (the philosophical underpinning of the inevitability of death for us all), Berlioz's Requiem (the mass of the dead), and Mahler's Second Symphony (the "Resurrection").
		The next Halloween event, and a major one in the opera world, took place in a venue which was the exact opposite of the Sport Hall: Hungarian composer György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre on October 30 and 31 at the miniature Thália Theater, performed for the first time in Hungary and in the Hungarian language.
		Le Grand Macabre is an absurd surrealist-dadaist work which has its serious undertone of social criticism.
	www.budapestsun.com /full_story.asp?ArticleID={A20DBD0B845D11D28334000502CE820B}&From=Style (746 words)

	György Ligeti, Le Grand Macabre; BBC Singers, Justin Way (director); BBC Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rumpf ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		To really work Le Grand Macabre needs bizarre sets and costumes, as it is an opera about visual imagery as much as sounds and I missed the spectacle of Moshinsky’s surrealist sets.
		Willard White as Nekrotzar (the Grand Macabre of the title who comes to announce the end of the world) spoke and sang with his customary power and authority, inspiring terror.
		The importance of the orchestral textures being totally integrated with the voices is essential to both operas and both Ligeti and Strauss use intensive writing for the timpani and bass-drum to create a nailing nervous intensity as well as dark brooding woodwind and snarling brass.
	www.musicweb-international.com /SandH/2003/Oct03/ligeti1910.htm (964 words)

	Le Grand Macabre - György Ligeti
		Le Grand Macabre is musical theater of the absurd, not unrelated to theater works of Beckett, Genet, and Ionesco.
		Its central subject is mortality and its central character is Death, in the form of the character Nekrotzar (bass-baritone Willard White), who arrives in a city of skyscrapers, its streets strewn with litter and populated by vagrants, and announces that the world will end at midnight.
		The incredibly diverse influences, both musical and textual, that Ligeti has brought together in Le Grand Macabre create a field day for the erudite commentators, but many of his allusions will not be caught by the more general audience.
	www.culturevulture.net /Opera/LeGrandMacabre.htm (422 words)

	San Diego Magazine - covering San Diego entertainment, fashion, events and news.
		For the US premiere of György Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre." A good portion of the audience - most of them guests of the Opera - appeared in outrageous, bizarre, funny costumes, with painted faces or wearing masks, feathers, and the colors of the rainbow.
		"Macabre" begins with a grand concept, a "Sweeney Todd"-like picture of a disgusting world of loathsome characters, a pair of lovers (Sara Fulgoni, in a trouser role, and Anne-Sophie Duprels), and Death itself (Willard White), wanting to put an end to it all.
		A kind of homecoming for Ligeti would be a splendid thing, but a well-selected concert of his music would serve him better than "Macabre." For the record: the opera's premiere took place in 1978 in Stockholm, sung in Swedish.
	www.sandiego-online.com /opera/macabre.shtml (679 words)

	Amazon.com: Gyorgy Ligeti Edition Vol 8 - Le Grand Macabre: Music: Gyorgy Ligeti,Frode Olsen,Esa-Pekka Salonen,Derek ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Le Grand Macabre: Scene One - 'Dies irae'
		Compared to the first Macabre on disc--sung in German and not as compact as the revised, English version that Ligeti prepared for the 1997 Salzburg Festival revival--this one is the keeper, with better sound staging, wildly imaginative orchestrations, lucid program notes, and an enjoyably perky English rendition of the original text.
		Gyorgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre, two hours of absolutely inspired musical mayhem, is one of the five or so most important works of the century.
	www.amazon.com /Gyorgy-Ligeti-Vol-Grand-Macabre/dp/B00000ICMU (2255 words)

	1978 interview with Gyorgy Ligeti (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		A part of the Grand Macabre is made from the music of Oedipus, with an adapted text.
		GL: In the gestural, but not mechanical, pieces, like the Grand Macabre or the second [string] quartet, it is the same gesture, generally very expressive, very emotional, which creates a certain distance, a very high temperature and at the same time absolute zero, frozen.
		In this respect, the Grand Macabre is not at all a Wagnerian opera.
	home.grandecom.net /~jronsen/mmpp9/mmpp9gl3.html (5122 words)

	Opera News > The Met Opera Guild
		yÃ¶rgy Ligeti, the composer of Le Grand Macabre and numerous other orchestral and chamber works, who fled the shackles of Nazi and Stalinist regimes in his native Hungry to find that his inborn distrust of dogmas made the mid-twentieth century's rigid serialism equally unpalatable, has died at the age of 83.
		In 1973 he was granted a professorship at the Hamburg Music Academy, and from 1974 until 1977, the composer worked mainly on his opera, Le Grand Macabre, loosely based on an eschatological play by Belgian dramatist Michel de Ghelderode.
		In the opera, the titular character, Nekrotzar, arrives on a sordid and corrupt Earth to foretell the end of the world, only to be the lone soul that perishes when the end arrives.
	www.metoperafamily.org /operanews/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=1200 (812 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: San Francisco Opera Gives U.S. Premiere of Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre
		San Francisco Opera performs Györgi Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre tonight, in the American premiere of the darkly comic 1978 opera.
		Le Grand Macabre, based on the Michel de Ghelderode play Le Balade du grand macabre, takes place in Breughelland, a mythical land on the verge of the apocalypse.
		Premiered in 1978 in Stockholm, Le Grand Macabre has rapidly become one of the most popular contemporary operas in Europe, having been revived 13 times.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/649.html (365 words)

	Guardian \| Ligeti at 80
		But the Barbican's 80th-birthday tribute provided as good a summary as any: an orchestral showcase of Ligeti's four concertos, spanning 50 years of his creative career, with the London Sinfonietta conducted by George Benjamin, and a performance of his only full-length opera, Le Grand Macabre, with the BBC Symphony under Alexander Rumpf.
		Hearing the three works together emphasises their rich diversity - the violin work is the most conventional, the horn piece the strangest, and all take their argument into areas that other composers never reach.
		Le Grand Macabre, an opera about death and an end to the world that turns out to be not quite as final as everyone expects, is nearly a repertory work now, and certainly one of Ligeti's masterpieces.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4778722-110430,00.html (339 words)

	Grand Macabre, Le (The Grand Macabre) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Libretto by the composer and Michael Meschke, after the play La balade du Grand Macabre (The Ballad of the Grand Macabre) by Michel de Ghelderode.
		Set in an imaginary Breughelland, a country derived from Breughel's paintings, the opera, introduced by a motor-horn prelude, shows a drunken common man, Piet the Pot, and the sinister Grand Macabre, Nekrotzar, who appears to announce the coming end of the world to two lovers, Amanda and Amando, in the first scene.
		Ligeti's score is allusive, using music derived from Monteverdi, Verdi and Rossini for the lovers and the Eroica skeleton Prometheus theme in the second act in the palace.
	www.naxos.com /NewDesign/fintro.files/bintro.files/operas/Grand_Macabre_Le(The_Grand_Macabre).htm (169 words)

	Opera crackles and leaps with vibrant, madcap and totally unpredictable 'Macabre'
		The surge of excitement that filled the War Memorial Opera House on Friday night for the U.S. premiere of György Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" -- a heady, convivial buzz that dovetailed nicely with the profusion of Halloween costumes among the audience -- was something almost vanishingly rare in an American opera house.
		The libretto, adapted by Ligeti and Michael Meschke from a play by the Belgian writer Michel de Ghelderode, is a similar madcap jumble, leaping at a moment's notice from broad commedia dell'arte sex jokes to provocative philosophizing.
		In the end, "Le Grand Macabre" could serve as an allegory of its own presentation.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/11/01/DDGHC9J1LL1.DTL (1160 words)

	THE AUDIENCE UPSTAGED THE OPERA STAGE
		I was left to ask myself why “Le grand macabre” was retained on the schedule during the SFO’s cost-cutting trims while the eminent spectacles like “Coq d’Or” and “Les Troyens” both bit the dust when the red ink was posted.
		His prediction of the apocalyptic end of everything at midnight provides to be fraudulent, much like everything else in “macabre.” The moral of the piece is moral decay of society, brought home heavy-handedly with little conviction.
		György Ligeti’s opera “Le grand macabre,” in English, at the S.F. Opera, with orchestra, through Nov. 21.
	www.artssf.com /macabre0725.html (891 words)

	Le grand macabre, le grand - Charlotte Hellekant: Full Biography - IMGArtists.com
		After the premiere in Stockholm in 1978, Le Grand Macabre did the rounds of the After Le Grand Macabre, Ligeti produced next to nothing for five years
		Ornery to the core, Le Grand Macabre uses musical instruments to simulate non-musical effects.
		Based on the theatre piece "La Balade du Grand Macabre" by Michel de Ghelderode, Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre is a surreal, darkly whimsical vision of a modern
	le-grand.getinfoeasy.com /?q=le-grand-le-grand-macabre (288 words)

	György LIGETI Le Grand Macabre : Classical CD Reviews- March 2001 MusicWeb(UK) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With this work avant-guarde composer György Ligeti presents "opera." (He put quotes around the word himself.) Ornery to the core, Le Grand Macabre uses musical instruments to simulate non-musical effects.
		In fact, the entire plot is retro-Dada: Piet the Pot, a forever tipsy, professional wine-taster, is abducted by Nekrotzar, the Great Macabre, a personification of death.
		Thirty five years ago I must have anticipated hearing Le Grand Macabre for the first and only time, because I wrote: "Sometimes in the melting day/There are eons of hours to endure."
	www.musicweb-international.com /classrev/2001/Mar01/ligeti.htm (233 words)

	Sheet Music Plus Results
		Camille Saint-Saens: Danse Macabre (Symphonic Poem) Composed by Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921), arranged by H. Cramer.
		Saint Saens / Danse Macabre By Camille Saint-Saens.
		Le Carnaval des Animaux (Carnival of the Animals) By Camille Saint-Saens...
	www.sheetmusicplus.com /a/phrase.html?id=71220&phrase=Macabre (293 words)

	Laura Claycomb: Full Biography - IMGArtists.com
		She made her debut at La Scala in 1998 singing the title role in Donizetti's "Linda di Chamounix" and at the Salzburg Festival in 1997 as Amanda in Ligeti's "Le Grand Macabre" with Esa-Pekka Salonen and Peter Sellars.
		Laura Claycomb also portrayed a moving Cleopatra in Händel's "Giulio Cesare" at Houston Grand Opera with Patrick Summers in 2003, in Montpellier in 1999 with Christophe Rousset and with Roy Goodman at the Drottningholm Festival in 2001.
		She also sang the Angel in Debussy's "Le Martyre de St. Sebastien" with Salonen and the Stockholm Radio Orchestra in Stockholm.
	www.imgartists.com /?page=artist&id=364&c=2 (685 words)

	Ligeti: Le Grand Macabre (1997 Version) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Made under the composer's supervision, this world-premiere recording captures live performances of the 1997 version of György Ligeti's opera Le Grande Macabre at Paris' Theatre du Chatelet.
		Based on the theatre piece "La Balade du Grand Macabre" by Michel de Ghelderode, Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre is a surreal, darkly whimsical vision of a modern world -- much of the action is set in a place called Breughelland -- that is approaching apocalypse.
		LIGETI: Nonsense Madrigals; Mysteries of the Macabre; Aventures; etc.
	www.sonyclassical.com /releases/62312/main.htm (261 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| Strange, sublime and just plain silly
		It was a wonderfully generous tribute laid on by the Barbican: we heard four of Ligeti's concertos, a performance of his extraordinary, surreal opera Le Grand Macabre, involving no fewer than 14 soloists, plus workshops, films and a beguiling appearance by some Pygmy musicians who've so inspired him in recent years.
		Last weekend was full of inimitable Ligeti inventions, such as the ending of Le Grand Macabre in which Nekrotzar (a cross between Darth Vader and Dr Evil, the villain in the Austin Powers movies) simply collapses and vanishes to a tenderly sinister invention for muted strings.
		It's a moment with the utter strangeness of a mirage, the entire packed hall seeming to hold its breath for the two-minute duration of the piece.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2003/10/21/bmlig21.xml&sSheet=/arts/2003/10/21/ixartleft.html (444 words)

	ionarts
		Another of the opera productions I expressed interest in (see my preview of the Opera Season, 2004–2005) was the American premiere of György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre (1978), in the Royal Danish Opera production, at the San Francisco Opera (until November 21).
		Stephanie von Buchau, 'Le Grand Macabre,' billed as a comedy, has a sour view of life (Alameda Times-Star, November 2):
		It is possible to criticize the self-important company-inspired hoopla -- the klieg lights in front of the War Memorial; the rows of comped Halloween costumed "patrons" at the rear of the orchestra; the cartoony borrowed production from Denmark with its cheesy sex and four-letter words.
	ionarts.blogspot.com /2004/11/ligetis-le-grand-macabre-in-san.html (1314 words)

	György Ligeti Edition 4: Vocal Works (Madrigals, Mysteries, Aventures, Songs) - The King's Singers / Philharmonia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Esa-Pekka Salonen, long a devotee of Ligeti´s music, conducts the Philharmonia when ensemble support is indicated (´Mysteries of the Macabre´ excerpts form his opera "Le Grand Macabre" as perfectly intoned by Sibylle Ehlert; the various forms of ´Aventures & Nouvelles aventures´ with soloists Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Omar Ebrahim and Rose Taylor).
		"Mysteries of the Macabre" is a setting for chamber ensemble of the zany solo by the Chief of Secret Police (a coloratura soprano) from the composer´s sole opera "The Grand Macabre".
		Less worthwhile is Mysteries of the Macabre, a medley of the three coloratura arias from Ligeti´s opera Le Grand Macabre, with reduced scoring arranged by the opera´s first conductor, Elgar Howarth.
	store.edcal.com /an/B0000029P3.html (2102 words)

	S A N \| F R A N C I S C O \| C L A S S I C A L \| V O I C E
		No sir: last Friday night at the San Francisco Opera, traditionalists could not cavil; all these things were supposed to be there, in the long-awaited American premiere of György Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre.
		With a performance of the revised 1996 version (imported from the Royal Danish Opera Production of 2001) the San Francisco forces served up an evening that was musically vital, though its longueurs managed to prove that Regieoper can screw up even works that are nearly brand-new.
		Le Grand Macabre continues at the Opera House on November 5, 9, and 13 at 8 P.M.; on November 18 at 7:30 P.M., and on November 21 at 2 P.M. (George Thomson is a conductor, violinist and violist, Director of the Virtuoso Program, San Domenico School, living in Novato.
	www.sfcv.org /arts_revs/grandmacabre_11_2_04.php (1390 words)

	PlaybillArts: News: Le Grand Macabre Conductor Has Emergency Back Surgery
		Michael Boder, who has been conducting Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre at the San Francisco Opera, has withdrawn from the production due to emergency back surgery, the Mercury News reports.
		Boder’s doctors say it is possible the conductor will return for the final performance on November 21.
		Le Grand Macabre, a farce that takes place in a mythical country on the brink of an apocalypse, premiered in Stockholm in 1978.
	www.playbillarts.com /news/article/696.html (284 words)

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		Laura Claycomb burst onto the European stages as Giulietta in Bellini's "I Capuleti e I Montecchi" (Bruno Campanella/Robert Carsen) at the Grand Théâtre de Geneve in 1994.
		She also sang the part of the Angel in Debussy's "Le Martyre de St. Sebastien" with Salonen and the Stockholm Radio Orchestra in Stockholm.
		With Richard Hickox, she sang Haydn's Creation (Spoleto Festival), Ann Trulove Stravinsky's "The Rake's Progress" (Barbican Hall), Vaughan-Williams' "A Sea Symphony" at the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, the music of Grainger at the BBC Proms and Gretel in "Hänsel und Gretel" with the London Symphony Orchestra.
	www.lauraclaycomb.com /LauraClaycomb.doc (719 words)

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