GEPOPO Psst! Shsht! Co... cocoding zero! Ah! Cococoding Zero, Zero: highest security grade! Zero, Zero! Birds on the wing! Double-you see! Snakes in the grass! Rabble, rabble, rabble! Riot, riot! Unlawful assemblies! Communal insurrection! Mutinous masses! Turbulence! Panic! Panic Groundless! Groundless! Phobia! Wide of the mark! Right off the track! Hypopochondria! Rsh! GO GO What did you say? GEPOPO Rsh! March! March target! Direction! Prince! Your palace! March target royal palace! Palace! Password: Go-Go-lash! Demonstrations, hah! Protest actions, ha! Provocations, ha! Pst! Pst! Much discretion! Close observation! Take precautions! That's all. Pst! Pst! Not a squeak! Confidential!
Le Grand Macabre
Opera by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006)
Psst!/ Shsht!
Authorship:
- Singable translation by Geoffrey David Skelton (1916 - 1998) [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in German (Deutsch) by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006), copyright © [text unavailable] and by Michael Kurt Johannes Alf Meschke (b. 1931), copyright © [text unavailable]
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Set by by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006), 1974-1977 [ soprano and orchestra ], revised 1996, also set in German (Deutsch)Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
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Authorship:
- by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006), copyright ©
- by Michael Kurt Johannes Alf Meschke (b. 1931), copyright ©
Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):
Set by by György Ligeti (1923 - 2006), 1974-1977 [ soprano and orchestra ], revised 1996, also set in EnglishThis text may be copyright, so we will not display it until we obtain permission to do so or discover it is public-domain.
Note: the opera is loosely based on Michel de Ghelderode's play, La Balade du Grand Macabre, 1934.