Organization

Singer

Tenor

Michael König

Das Tier in Scharlach

Baritone

Thomas Lehman

Luzifer

Spoken

Jonas Grundner-Culemann

Gottes Stimme

Soprano

Valeriia Savinskaia

Das Echo der Rätselstimmung

Irene Roberts

Die Rätselstimmung

Thomas Blondelle

Der Mund

Flurina Stucki

Die große Hure

Die Lüge

Seth Carico

Der Hass

Eine Stimme

Stage director

Ersan Mondtag

Conductor

Stephan Zilias

Lighting designer

Rainer Casper

Costume designer

Annik Lu Hermann

Set designer

Choreographer

Rob Fordeyn

Dramaturge

Lars Gebhardt

Chorus master

Jeremy Bines

Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

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Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin

German

Antikrist -  (Antichrist)

Berlin

Germany

Antikrist Langgaard

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Antichrist

English

Approved

Oratorio orgiasm, metaphor revue, Dada parade - Rued Langgaard's opera rarity ANTIKRIST, directed by Ersan Mondtag, has been moving critics and audiences ali...

The Antichrist enters a godless world. Called by Lucifer himself, he reveals himself in many forms: Mankind is tested and tempted in the "quarrel of all against all" through arrogance, discontent, desire, lies and hatred. But in the end the voice of God puts an end to the Antichrist: "Hephata!" / "Open up!" - the world seems cleansed.

Rued Langgaard's "Church Opera", composed in the early 1920s and thoroughly revised by 1930, is a monolith in the composer's oeuvre, which is not short of exciting and unusual works. Based on the Revelation of St. John, he designs an eschatological mystery play that cannot hide the zeitgeist of the fin de siècle. His highly symbolic text, full of associations, is correspondingly historically pessimistic. But the dazzling music – characterized by the late-Romantic, large orchestral sound, which also collapses again and again and from which sparse and sober details are worked out – brings hope to the dark world. The artistic loner Langgaard has found a personal style here that is reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner,

Director Ersan Mondtag makes his Berlin opera debut – the extremely powerful imagery of the multi-award-winning director, whose works have been seen several times at the Theratertreffen, with its over-aestheticization seems to have been made for Langgaard's apocalyptic mystery.

Antichrist by Langgaard, R., From (2022/2022), Directed by Ersan Mondtag,, Conductor Stephan Zilias, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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