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aus LICHT - part 3: COOPERATION AND THE OPENING UP OF SPACE

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Holland Festival, De Nationale Opera, Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag

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. 

 

Highlights from DIENSTAG aus LICHT, MITTWOCH aus LICHT and SONNTAG aus LICHT can be seen in the third part. For instance, INVASION-EXPLOSION, an overwhelming, electronic sound world in which the conflict between Michael and Lucifer is settled. This is followed by WELT-PARLAMENT, ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN and HELIKOPTER-STREICHQUARTETT, and visions of cosmic cooperation are shown. Both the Nederlands Kamerkoor and Cappella Amsterdam perform. Four string players perform high above Amsterdam from helicopters. This part is not to be missed by anyone who wants to see why Stockhausen was the greatest avant-garde composer of the previous century.

MITTWOCHS-GRUSS ** (from MITTWOCH)

electronic composition (12.30 - 1.25 pm)

 

interval (1.25 - 2.00 pm)

 

INVASION-EXPLOSIONmitABSCHIED (from DIENSTAG)

 

interval (3.15 - 4.15 pm)

 

WELT-PARLAMENT(from MITTWOCH) 

 

interval (5.00 - 6.00 pm)

 

ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN (from MITTWOCH)

HELIKOPTER-STREICHQUARTETT (from MITTWOCH)

 

dinner break (8.10 - 9.25 pm)

 

ENGEL-PROZESSIONEN (from SONNTAG)

(ends at 10.30 pm)

 

* times with reservation

**electronic compositions for dedicated listeners in particular

 

armies battle each other in the theatre space. Lucifer’s forces finally claim victory. Mortally wounded, Michael dies in Eve’s embrace in the solemn PIETÁ, while a frenzied Lucifer celebrates. 

 

Disputes settled

MITTWOCH is the opera in LICHT in which the three main characters share the stage and finally reconcile. In WELT-PARLAMENT disputes are settled and visions for cosmic cooperation are born.

 

Airborne

Instrumentalists arrive to audition for a heavenly orchestra in ORCHESTER-FINALISTEN, and four string players literally become airborne, taking off in a helicopter. Via radio links, the HELIKOPTER-STREICHQUARTETT is broadcast into the Gashouder theatre. After returning to Earth, the musicians and pilots take questions from the audience. Seven groups of singers then descend like angels from heaven and move through the audience, bringing a mood of serenity in the ENGELPROZESSIONEN, one of the two scenes fromSONNTAG, the opera concluding the LICHT cycle.

 

Two armies

The conflict between Michael and Lucifer climaxes in INVASION-EXPLOSION. In an awesome electronic soundscape that draws on Stockhausen’s own reminiscences of the Second World War, two

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dates

Sun June 2 2019 2:00 PM

Thu June 6 2019 9:30 PM

Mon June 10 2019 2:00 PM

information

  • Duration of performance unknown (inclusief pauzes en elektronische composities)

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In 2019 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

In 2019 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.

 

aus LICHT is a selection of key sections of Karlheinz Stockhausen's LICHTcycle. From the whole work's 29 hours of music, the production will comprise 15 hours performed over three days, capturing the whole tonal universe of the original cycle. 

 

The three concerts, which together last more than 15 hours, can be viewed individually, but to experience the work in its full and unparalleled brilliance we recommend attending all three.

 

As the first-ever staging of such a large part of the LICHT cycle (over half of the full opera cycle), the unique nature and scale of this project make it a truly world-class operatic and musical theatre production.

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credits

a work of Karlheinz Stockhausen musical direction Kathinka Pasveer mise-en-espace Pierre Audi sets and light Urs Schönebaum costume design Wojciech Dziedzic video Chris Kondek curator Renee Jonker dramaturgy, direction Klaus Bertisch musical and dramaturgical consultant Suzanne Stephens-Janning educational advisor Cristiano Melli conductor Nederlands Kamerkoor Jeffrey Skidmore conductor Cappella Amsterdam Daniel Reuss artistic producer / coordinator Sigi Giesler performers solisten, instrumental soloists, helicopter pilots, students from the MA aus LICHT, students Royal Conservatoire The Hague, Nederlands Kamerkoor, Cappella Amsterdam

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