Antikrist - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Antikrist
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24.04.2025 , Thursday
19:30
B
Deutsche Oper, Bismarckstraße 35, 10627 Berlin, Germany
Seating plan
Opera in two acts [in a prologue and six scenes]
Libretto by the composer
German translation by Inger and Walther Methlagl, revised for the critical edition by Monika Wesemann
Revised version, BVN 192 [1930]
Staged premiere on May 2nd, 1999 at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 30, 2022
recommended from 16 years
90 minutes / no break
In German with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
The Antichrist enters a godless world. Called by Lucifer himself, he reveals himself in many forms: Mankind is tested and tempted in the "quarrel of all against all" through arrogance, discontent, desire, lies and hatred. But in the end the voice of God puts an end to the Antichrist: "Hephata!" / "Open up!" - the world seems cleansed.
Rued Langgaard's Church Opera, composed in the early 1920s and thoroughly revised by 1930, is a monolith in the composer's oeuvre that is not short of exciting and unusual works. Based on the Revelation of St. John, he designs an eschatological mystery play that cannot hide the zeitgeist of the fin de siècle. His highly symbolic text, which is full of associations, can be read in a correspondingly historically pessimistic manner. But the dazzling music – characterized by the late-Romantic, large orchestral sound, which also collapses again and again and from which sparse and sober details are worked out – brings hope to 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.
Director Ersan Mondtag is making his Berlin opera debut – the extremely powerful imagery of the multiple “Young Director of the Year” [Theater heute], whose works have been shown several times at the Theratertreffen, seems to have been made for Langgaard's end-time mystery with its over-aestheticized form.
Subject to change.
Libretto by the composer
German translation by Inger and Walther Methlagl, revised for the critical edition by Monika Wesemann
Revised version, BVN 192 [1930]
Staged premiere on May 2nd, 1999 at the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck
Premiere at the Deutsche Oper Berlin on January 30, 2022
recommended from 16 years
90 minutes / no break
In German with German and English surtitles
Introduction: 45 minutes before the start of the performance in the foyer on the right
The Antichrist enters a godless world. Called by Lucifer himself, he reveals himself in many forms: Mankind is tested and tempted in the "quarrel of all against all" through arrogance, discontent, desire, lies and hatred. But in the end the voice of God puts an end to the Antichrist: "Hephata!" / "Open up!" - the world seems cleansed.
Rued Langgaard's Church Opera, composed in the early 1920s and thoroughly revised by 1930, is a monolith in the composer's oeuvre that is not short of exciting and unusual works. Based on the Revelation of St. John, he designs an eschatological mystery play that cannot hide the zeitgeist of the fin de siècle. His highly symbolic text, which is full of associations, can be read in a correspondingly historically pessimistic manner. But the dazzling music – characterized by the late-Romantic, large orchestral sound, which also collapses again and again and from which sparse and sober details are worked out – brings hope to 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.
Director Ersan Mondtag is making his Berlin opera debut – the extremely powerful imagery of the multiple “Young Director of the Year” [Theater heute], whose works have been shown several times at the Theratertreffen, seems to have been made for Langgaard's end-time mystery with its over-aestheticized form.
Subject to change.