Antikrist - Schedule, Program & Tickets
Antikrist
Into a godless world enters the Antichrist. Invoked by Lucifer himself, he reveals himself in many forms: Through arrogance, discontent, desire, lies and hatred humanity in the "dispute of all against all" tested and tried. But in the end, the voice of God puts an end to the Antichrist: "Hephata!" / "Open yourself!" - the world seems purified.
Rued Langgaard's "church opera" composed in the early 1920s and fundamentally revised until 1930, is a monolith in the composer's oeuvre, which is not poor in exciting and unusual works. Based on the Revelation of John, he creates an eschatological mystery play that can not hide the zeitgeist of the fin de siècle. Accordingly, in a pessimistic way, his highly symbolistic text full of associations can be read. But the dazzling music - shaped by the late romantic, great orchestral sound, but always coinciding in itself and from the barren and sober details are worked out - brings hope in the dark world. The artistic loner Langgaard has found a personal style here that, while reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but also denies his contemporaries Hindemith and Schoenberg.
Director Ersan Mondtag gives his opera debut in Berlin - the incredibly powerful imagery of the multiple "young director of the year" [Theater heute], whose work was seen several times at the Therat meeting, seems overhauled with its overesthetization for Langgaard's end-time mystery.
Subject to change.
Rued Langgaard's "church opera" composed in the early 1920s and fundamentally revised until 1930, is a monolith in the composer's oeuvre, which is not poor in exciting and unusual works. Based on the Revelation of John, he creates an eschatological mystery play that can not hide the zeitgeist of the fin de siècle. Accordingly, in a pessimistic way, his highly symbolistic text full of associations can be read. But the dazzling music - shaped by the late romantic, great orchestral sound, but always coinciding in itself and from the barren and sober details are worked out - brings hope in the dark world. The artistic loner Langgaard has found a personal style here that, while reminiscent of Strauss and Wagner, but also denies his contemporaries Hindemith and Schoenberg.
Director Ersan Mondtag gives his opera debut in Berlin - the incredibly powerful imagery of the multiple "young director of the year" [Theater heute], whose work was seen several times at the Therat meeting, seems overhauled with its overesthetization for Langgaard's end-time mystery.
Subject to change.
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