Name: Donnerstag aus Licht
Start: 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Philharmonie de Paris

Organization

Tenor

Damien Bigourdan

Michael

Soprano

Pia Davila

Bass

Bass-baritone

Damien Pass

Luzifer

Conductor

Maxime Pascal

Cité de la Musique/Philharmonie de Paris

Le Balcon

Stage director

Benjamin Lazar

Costume designer

Set designer

Adeline Caron

Video

Set designer (+1)

Yann Chapotel

Sound designer

Florent Derex

Augustin Muller

Lighting designer

Christophe Naillet

Trumpetist

Henri Deléger

Trumpet

Clarinettist

Iris Zerdoud

Basset Horn

Trombonist

Mathieu Adam

Trombone

Instrumentalist

Alphonse Cemin

Paino

Alice Caubit

Clarinet

Ghislain Roffat

Others

Philharmonie de Paris

Dancer

Emmanuelle Grach

Donnerstag aus Licht -  (Thursday from Light)

Paris

France

Grande Salle Pierre Boulez

Donnerstag (Thursday) was the first completed work of the gigantic seven-opera cycle Licht (Light) by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007). Composed over a span of 25 years and lasting nearly 30 hours in total, the cycle offers up a wide-ranging, experimental take on theology, time, and the nature of the universe. In Donnerstag, the protagonist Michael (a composite of the archangel Michael and of the composer himself) comes to life in three different guises, played by a singer, a dancer, and a trumpeter as he passes from an impoverished childhood to an artistically successful adulthood and, finally, to the celestial realm as an archangel.

The prominence of new technologies in Donnerstag reflects the vision of the total spectacle that inheres in most of the work of Stockhausen, who wanted to make music available to see—a goal to which Le Balcon is particularly well suited with their assured use of video mapping, real-time streaming, 3D sound restoration… Exploring time, filling space, implicating interpreters as well as the audience, Stockhausen made Donnerstag an epic adventure for the senses and the mind, with a remarkable attention to detail and a striking narrative complexity.

Donnerstag aus Licht

Opera

Thursday from Light

Approved

Donnerstag aus Licht Stockhausen

Never before has the monumental cycle of Stockhausen’s Licht been performed as a single production. This is the adventure Ensemble Le Balcon embarked upon three years ago. After Samstag (Saturday) and Dienstag (Tuesday), they give us the first two acts of Donnerstag (Thursday).

français

Donnerstag (Thursday) was the first completed work of the gigantic seven-opera cycle Licht (Light) by German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 - 2007). Composed over a span of 25 years and lasting nearly 30 hours in total, the cycle offers up a wide-ranging, experimental take on theology, time, and the nature of the universe. In Donnerstag, the protagonist Michael (a composite of the archangel Michael and of the composer himself) comes to life in three different guises, played by a singer, a dancer, and a trumpeter as he passes from an impoverished childhood to an artistically successful adulthood and, finally, to the celestial realm as an archangel.

English

Thursday from Light by Stockhausen, ma. 15 nov. 2021, Fra (2021/2021), I regi av Benjamin Lazar, Dirigent Maxime Pascal, Philharmonie de Paris, Paris, France

Forestillingkreditter (Ensemble & produksjonsteam )

Cast

Instrumentering

Mannskap

Ensemble

Medprodusent

Program, Informasjon & Sammendrag

Bilder

Videre lesning

Forestillingsdatoer og spillesteder

Sted