Berlin’s 75th anniversary Festspiele features one of the century’s strangest works
by editors@theworld.org (Breandain O’Shea) from The World: Latest Stories on (#78DP7)
The 75th anniversary of the Berliner Festspiele, an annual art and culture festival, featured an opening-night opera which may just be one of the darkest, strangest oeuvres of the twentieth century: Hungarian contemporary composer Gyorgy Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre. From Berlin, DW's Breandain O'Shea reports on that selection and its meaning.