Dienstag aus Licht
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Dienstag aus Licht, opera in one salute and two acts
Composition: 1977 for the first version of Jahreslauf; 1988–1991 for the complete opera
Full stage premiere: 28 May 1993 at the Leipzig Opera House – Staged by Johannes Conen and Uwe Wand, under the direction of the composer
Publisher: Stockhausen Verlag
Duration: 2 hours 25 minutes
Dienstag aus Licht, day of war, is devoted to the conflictual relationship between Michael and Lucifer. The fourth part of the Licht cycle (in order of composition), it presents two radically different acts. Jahreslauf is a game, a race against time, while Invasion - Explosion is the acoustic and electronic theatre of a war situation.
This production premiered on 24 October 2020 at the Philharmonie de Paris, as part of the Festival d'Automne à Paris.
Structure
Opera in one greeting, two acts and a farewell for 17 soloists (3 voices, 10 instrumentalists, 4 dancer-mimes), actors, mimes, choir, modern orchestra, tape
Dienstags-Gruss (Tuesday Greeting)
Willkommen mit Friedens-Gruss (Welcome with Peace Greeting)
Act I
Jahreslauf (Course of the Years)
Act II
Invasion – Explosion mit Abschied (Invasion – Explosion with Farewell)
Artistic direction Maxime Pascal, Nieto, Damien Bigourdan
Musical direction Maxime Pascal and Richard Wilberforce (Gruss)
Stage direction Damien Bigourdan
Visual design Nieto
Assistant director Agathe Cemin
Sound projection Florent Derex assisted by Léna Jallon
Set design Myrtille Debièvre
Computer music production Augustin Muller assisted by Étienne Démoulin
Costumes Pascale Lavandier
Lighting Catherine Verheyde
Props Marguerite Lantz
Video Jérôme Tuncer
Chariot and Synthi-Fou costume Nieto, Marcel Flores, Claire Pédot
with
Élise Chauvin, soprano, Eve (Gruss)
Léa Trommenschlager, soprano, Eve (Pietà)
Hubert Mayer, tenor, Michael (Jahreslauf), general of Michael's troops (Invasion – Explosion)
Damien Pass, bass, Lucifer (Jahreslauf), general of Lucifer's troops (Invasion – Explosion)
Henri Deléger, trumpet, flugelhorn, first fighter of Michael's troops (Invasion – Explosion), Michael (Pietà)
Mathieu Adam, trombone, first fighter of Lucifer's troops (Invasion – Explosion)
Sarah Kim, synthesizers, Synthi-Fou
Rodrigo Ferreira, millennium runner (Jahreslauf)
Agathe Cemin, runner of the centuries (Jahreslauf)
Emmanuelle Grach, runner of the decades (Jahreslauf), Michael (Pietà)
Hacen Hafdhi, runner of the years (Jahreslauf)
Actors
Thibaut Thezan, referee
Charles Ségard-Noirclère, lion mime, assistant referee, flower bearer
Charlotte Lupinski, little girl, assistant referee and cook
Samuel Yagoubi, cook mime, singer, assistant referee, flower bearer
Laurine Ristroph, naked woman, flower bearer
European orchestra
Solo trumpets Henri Deléger, Jérôme Lacquet, Matthias Champon
Tutti trumpets Jérémy Lecomte, Antoine Saintes*, Florent Cardon, Andrea Jaeger*, Siméon Vinour*, Pierre Favennec
Solo trombones Mathieu Adam, Benoit Coutris, Guillaume Millière
Tutti trombones Jean-Charles Dupuis, Nestor Welmane*, Maxime Morel, Louise Ognois*, Laurent Bordarier*, Vincent Radix
Synthesizers Corentin Billette, Suzanne Saint-Cast
Harmoniums Sarah Kim, Alain Muller, Marin Yamanaka
Flutes Julie Brunet-Jailly, Samuel Bricault, Yua Souverbie
Soprano saxophones Lucas Gaudin, Yuka Nojima, Juliette Herbet
Harpsichord Anastasie Jeanne
Guitar Thomas Csaba
Percussion François-Xavier Plancqueel, Corentin Aubry, Cyprien Noisette
Mobile synthesizers Arthur Lavandier, Haga Ratovo
Mobile percussion Othman Louati, Stanislas Delannoy
* students at the Paris Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique
Co-production Philharmonie de Paris, Festival d’automne à Paris
With the support of:
the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris,
La Muse en Circuit – CNSM,
the Singer-Polignac Foundation,
the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation,
Adami and Stockhausen Verlag
