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Vasily Barkhatov directs Le Grand Macabre in Frankfurt (****) [live]

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Jos Hermans
Dec 08, 2023
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Author: Jos Hermans

It is difficult not to compare Frankfurt's production of Le Grand Macabre with Jan Lauwers' production in Vienna, which premiered during the same period and which relied on completely different aesthetic principles. György Ligeti claimed that he preferred the English version, which emerged during the re…

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