Antikrist - premiere - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Antikrist - premiere
Church opera in two acts and six pictures. Libretto by the composer. Revised version, BVN 192 (1930).
Staged world premiere on May 2, 1999 at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 30, 2022
recommended for ages 16 and up
In German with German and English surtitles
90 minutes / no break
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
The Antichrist enters a godless world. Called on by Lucifer himself, he reveals himself in many forms: Through pride, displeasure, desire, lies and hatred, humanity is tested and tempted in the "struggle of all against all". But in the end the voice of God puts an end to the Antichrist: “Hephata!” / “Open yourself!” - the world seems cleansed.
Rued Langgaard's "Church Opera", composed in the early 1920s and fundamentally revised by 1930, is a monolith in the composer's oeuvre that is not lacking in exciting and unusual works. Based on the Revelation of John, he designs an eschatological mystery play that cannot hide the zeitgeist of the fin de siècle. Accordingly, his highly symbolistic text, full of associations, can be read in a historically pessimistic manner. But the dazzling music - shaped by the late romantic, great orchestral sound, but which also repeatedly collapses and from which sparse and sober details are worked out - brings hope into the dark world. The artistic loner Langgaard has found a personal style that is reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but does not deny his contemporaries Hindemith and Schönberg either.
Director Ersan Mondtag is making his Berlin opera debut - the extremely powerful imagery of the multiple “Young Director of the Year” [Theater heute], whose work was seen several times at the Therater Meetings, seems, with its overestheticization, made for Langgaard's end-time mystery.
Musical director Stephan Zilias
Staging, Ersan Mondtag stage
Costumes Annika Lu Hermann
Ersan lunar day
Light Rainer Casper
Jeremy Bines choirs
Choreography Rob Fordeyn
Dramaturgy Carolin Müller-Dohle
Lucifer Thomas Lehman
God's voice Jonas Grundner-Culemann
The echo of the mysterious mood Valeriia Savinskaia
The mysterious mood of Irene Roberts
The mouth that speaks big words is Clemens Bieber
The discontent of Gina Perregrino
The great whore Flurina Stucki
The animal in scarlet AJ Glueckert
The lie Clemens Bieber
The hatred of Jordan Shanahan
A voice from Thomas Lehman
Dancers Ashley Wright
Derrick Amanatidis
Leo Lin
Daphne Fernberger
Yuri Shimaoka
Ulysse Zangs
Vasna Felicia Aguilar
Giorgia Bovo
Vincent Clavaguera
Joel Donald Small
György Jellinek
Ana Dordevic
Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Subject to changes.
Staged world premiere on May 2, 1999 at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 30, 2022
recommended for ages 16 and up
In German with German and English surtitles
90 minutes / no break
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
The Antichrist enters a godless world. Called on by Lucifer himself, he reveals himself in many forms: Through pride, displeasure, desire, lies and hatred, humanity is tested and tempted in the "struggle of all against all". But in the end the voice of God puts an end to the Antichrist: “Hephata!” / “Open yourself!” - the world seems cleansed.
Rued Langgaard's "Church Opera", composed in the early 1920s and fundamentally revised by 1930, is a monolith in the composer's oeuvre that is not lacking in exciting and unusual works. Based on the Revelation of John, he designs an eschatological mystery play that cannot hide the zeitgeist of the fin de siècle. Accordingly, his highly symbolistic text, full of associations, can be read in a historically pessimistic manner. But the dazzling music - shaped by the late romantic, great orchestral sound, but which also repeatedly collapses and from which sparse and sober details are worked out - brings hope into the dark world. The artistic loner Langgaard has found a personal style that is reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but does not deny his contemporaries Hindemith and Schönberg either.
Director Ersan Mondtag is making his Berlin opera debut - the extremely powerful imagery of the multiple “Young Director of the Year” [Theater heute], whose work was seen several times at the Therater Meetings, seems, with its overestheticization, made for Langgaard's end-time mystery.
Musical director Stephan Zilias
Staging, Ersan Mondtag stage
Costumes Annika Lu Hermann
Ersan lunar day
Light Rainer Casper
Jeremy Bines choirs
Choreography Rob Fordeyn
Dramaturgy Carolin Müller-Dohle
Lucifer Thomas Lehman
God's voice Jonas Grundner-Culemann
The echo of the mysterious mood Valeriia Savinskaia
The mysterious mood of Irene Roberts
The mouth that speaks big words is Clemens Bieber
The discontent of Gina Perregrino
The great whore Flurina Stucki
The animal in scarlet AJ Glueckert
The lie Clemens Bieber
The hatred of Jordan Shanahan
A voice from Thomas Lehman
Dancers Ashley Wright
Derrick Amanatidis
Leo Lin
Daphne Fernberger
Yuri Shimaoka
Ulysse Zangs
Vasna Felicia Aguilar
Giorgia Bovo
Vincent Clavaguera
Joel Donald Small
György Jellinek
Ana Dordevic
Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Subject to changes.
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