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Organization

Le Festival d'Automne à Paris

Singer

Tenor

Damien Bigourdan

Michael

Soprano

Elise Chauvin

Léa Trommenschlager

Bass-baritone

Damien Pass

Lucifer

Conductor

Maxime Pascal

Stage director

Set designer

Myrtille Debièvre

Costume designer

Pascale Lavandier

Lighting designer

Catherine Verheyde

Sound designer

Florent Derex

Augustin Muller

Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie

Le Balcon

Others

Le Jeune Choeur de Paris

Chorus master

Richard Wilberforce

Hubert Mayer

Instrumentalist

Henri Deléger

Trumpet

Mathieu Adam

Trombone

Sarah Kim

Synthétiseur

Dienstag aus Licht

Paris

France

Philharmonie de Paris

Grande Salle Pierre Boulez

Maxime Pascal and his ensemble Le Balcon continue the exploration of Licht de Stockhausen. Dienstag , the second day, is placed under the aegis of Mars, the god of war. A war between the Archangel Michael, hero of the cycle, and Lucifer. 
If the combat of the archangel and the devil is a well-known biblical painting, Stockhausen treats it in a rather singular way. Moreover, throughout the cycle, the figure of Michael is a projection of the composer himself. According to Maxime Pascal, who is involved with his Ensemble Le Balcon in this integral Licht for the Philharmonie de Paris, "the cosmic and mystical rantings of Stockhausen have nothing to do with megalomaniac delirium, they are more a response to violence traumas he suffered as a child (the death of the father, the mother, the horrors of war). The question of childhood is essential to understand his music: his naivety must be interpreted as positive. He decided to preserve it, without however locking himself into it.

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