Alan Gilbert, Music Director

Alan Gilbert

Soundcheck | May 26, 2010

A night at the opera doesn’t get much more rollicking and unpredictable than a performance of György Ligeti's apocalyptic satire Le Grand Macabre. Alan Gilbert is capping his first season as music director of the New York Philharmonic by leading the New York premiere of this riotous two-act opera, which has been described as “part avant-garde, part Marx Brothers.”

Gilbert tells us about it, and about his first season at the helm of the Philharmonic.

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