Name: Samstag aus Licht
Start: 2019-06-28T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-06-29T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Philharmonie de Paris

Admin

Organization

Singer

Bass

Damien Pass

Lucifer

Conductor

Maxime Pascal

Stage director

Damien Bigourdan

Set designer

Myrtille Debièvre

Costume designer

Pascale Lavandier

Video designer

Nieto

Lighting designer

Catherine Verheyde

Sound designer

Florent Derex

Chorus master

Emilie Fleury

Pianist

Alphonse Cemin

Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie

Others

Le Balcon

Orchestra

Orchestre d'harmonie du Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Paris

Chœur de l’Armée française

Samstag aus Licht

Paris

France

Philharmonie de Paris

Maxime Pascal and his trailblazing ensemble Le Balcon seek to expand the possibilities for musical performance and consumption, and to that end, their innovative production features a first for medici.tv: a binaural recording. Grab your headphones for the full immersive experience!

Begun in 1977 and completed in 2003, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Licht (meaning “light”) is a vast cycle of seven operas that last a total of 29 hours and seek to recreate the world. Each opera of the cycle is dedicated to a particular day of the week, symbolized by a planet and numerous other elements derived from mythology. Under the influence of Saturn and Saint Francis of Assisi, Samstag (Saturday)’s principal protagonist is Lucifer, the “bearer of light”. On stage, the opera is a true musical and visual blaze of constant wonder, performed here in two parts: the first at Paris’s Cité de la musique and the second at the Église Saint-Laurent-Jacques-Saint-Christophe.

Public

Approved

Production booklet

Further reading