Beautifully arcane, and it plays to my enthusiasm for Ligeti and spaghetti westerns!

Here’s Barbara Hannigan in “Mysteries of the Macabre,” a distillation of three coloratura arias from “Le Grand Macabre,” sung by the character of Gepopo, the chief of secret police. In case you’re curious, the text is semi-nonsense.

In London

In Berlin

In New York in a semi-staged production of the complete opera

Trailer for the New York Philharmonic performances

BONUSES:

Act I car horn prelude

Act II doorbell prelude

Equally operatic and absurd, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

“I am in a prison: one wall is the avant-garde, the other wall is the past, and I want to escape.”

György Ligeti