aus LICHT - part 2: LUCIFER AND EVE

A marathon performance will be staged of a large portion of the LICHT cycle, composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen. Featuring selected highlights from the seven operas – one for each day of the week – it will offer a spectacular overview of Stockhausen's masterpiece. The three parts of aus LICHT can also be visited seperately.  

The second part of aus LICHT starts with the appropriate bom - bast and grandeur. Lucifer appears on stage, accompanied by fanfare, ringing of bells, fairy tale percussion and an eightymen orchestra. In three compositions from SAMSTAG aus LICHT (SAMSTAGS-GRUSS, KATHINKAs GESANG als LUZIFERs REQUIEM and LUZIFERs TANZ) Lucifer takes form and is challenged by Michael. The atmosphere changes completely after this mythical battle, with Eve as the central figure in four compositions from MONTAG aus LICHT. Three children’s choirs emphasise her role as the creator of life. It ends with the scenes DER KINDERFÄNGER and ENTFÜHRUNG, Stockhausen’s version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin.

FREITAGS-GRUSS**(from FREITAG)

electronic composition (1.15 - 2.25 pm)

interval (2.25 - 3.00 pm)

SAMSTAGS-GRUSS (from SAMSTAG)

KATHINKAs GESANG(from SAMSTAG)

interval (3.50 - 4.50 pm)

LUZIFERS TANZ(from SAMSTAG)

dinner break (5.45 - 6.50 pm)

MONTAGS-GRUSS**(from MONTAG)

electronic composition (6.50 - 7.20 pm) 

MÄDCHENPROZESSION (from MONTAG) 

EVAs LIED (from MONTAG)

DER KINDERFÄNGER und ENTFÜHRUNG(from MONTAG)

FREITAGS-ABSCHIED(from FREITAG)

electronic composition** (9.35-10.55 pm)

* times with reservation

**electronic compositions for dedicated listeners in particular

embodies the ideal human gene.

Magic percussion

A fanfare is followed by a bizarre ritual in KATHINKAs GESANG, where a flautist costumed as a cat plays a requiem for Lucifer, consisting of several exercises that will liberate his spirit from its bodily husk. She is accompanied by the tolling of bells and ‘magical’ percussion. Yet Lucifer is not dead yet, reappearing as an eighty-part orchestra that forms a monstrous grimacing face. Challenged by star trumpeter Michael, the first confrontation takes place. Subsequently the mood changes as Eve takes the stage with three scenes from MONTAG. Surrounded by maidens and children, she is shown as the creator of life, demonstrating her allure in a tripartite manifestation of femininity. Then the Pied Piper arrives and abducts all the children that Eve has borne.

Human gene

Expressed in an eleven-tone formula, Lucifer’s musical DNA is marked by deficiency. This drives him to seek completion by battling Michael or merging with Eve, whose twelve-tone formula