Name: Donnerstag aus Licht
Start: 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-11-15T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Grande Salle Pierre Boulez - Philharmonie

Organization

Ténor

Damien Bigourdan

Michael

Soprano

Pia Davila

Basse

Damien Pass

Luzifer

Direction d'orchestre

Maxime Pascal

Cité de la Musique-Philharmonie

Le Balcon

Mise en scène

Benjamin Lazar

Costumes

Adeline Caron

Video

Yann Chapotel

Florent Derex

Augustin Muller

Lumières

Christophe Naillet

Instrument

Henri Deléger

Trumpet

Danse

Emmanuelle Grach

Iris Zerdoud

Basset horn

Mathieu Adam

Trombone

Alphonse Cemin

Paino

Alice Caubit

Clarinet

Ghislain Roffat

Others

Donnerstag aus Licht -  (Jeudi de Lumière)

Paris

France

Philharmonie de Paris

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.

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