The focus of the performance is György Ligeti’s Requiem from 1965. From the classical form, the composer chose only those parts that are dedicated to grief and anger. Kornél Mundruczó, Hungarian film and theater director, whose disturbingly realistic narrative style made him internationally famous and who last year asked Hans Werner Henze’s oratorio The Raft of the Medusa for the Ruhrtriennale, puts the theme of repetition at the center of his discussion with this powerful work …

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