Le Grand Macabre

About the show

In the imaginary country of Breughelland, Nekrotzar, the figure of Death, announces that the world will end and recruits the drunken Piet as his companion. They head toward the palace, where the bumbling Prince Go-go and his officials are caught up in political and personal disorder. Nekrotzar drinks so much wine that he cannot carry out the apocalypse; the characters survive, and the opera ends with a chorus urging people not to fear death.