Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, String Quartet from the , Ensemble Le Balcon, Ensemble Le Balcon, Maxime Pascal, Tarren Johnson, Marie Groothof, Dominic Santia, Ixchel Mendoza, Laurie Young, Susanne Kennedy, Markus Selg, Andra Dumitrascu, Marcel Weber, Florent Derex, Jeremy Bines, Beate Breidenbach

With the beginning of the new artistic directorship of Aviel Cahn, the Deutsche Oper Berlin is undertaking a project which pushes boundaries: Karlheinz Stockhausens Mittwoch aus Licht can be experienced for the first time as a staged opera production in German-speaking countries and will be transformed into an immersive ritual by the multiple award-winning artistic duo Susanne Kennedy and Markus Selg. It will be conducted by the new principal guest conductor and passionate Stockhausen specialist Maxime Pascal. The performance even departs from the theatre location for the spectacular helicopter string quartet in which the four string players each perform in different helicopters circling high above the audience – a unique live event for the entire city which will be documented on film and become part of the performance.

Programme

Karlheinz Stockhausen
Mittwoch aus Licht (German premiere)