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LOCATION:Deutsche Oper Berlin\, Berlin
SUMMARY:Wednesday from Light
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DESCRIPTION:On the occasion of the new directorship\, Deutsche Oper Berlin 
 is venturing to show a project that crashes through boundaries and opens u
 p new spaces: Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Mittwoch aus Licht will be shown a
 s a scenic opera production in the German-speaking world for the first tim
 e. Stockhausen\, visionary of sound\, crafted nothing less than a cosmic t
 heatrum mundi about man and woman\, good and evil\, birth and death with h
 is monumental cycle LICHT. Die sieben Tage der Woche. While other portions
  of the cycle centre around the struggle between competing forces\, the po
 larity of which reshapes our lives every day\, Mittwoch celebrates the uto
 pia of love and the spiritual connection in the spirit of music\, as well 
 as the belief that community and solidarity are possible. Stockhausen was 
 uncompromising in his search for a new type of music\; he is considered on
 e of the most innovative and yet most controversial composers of the 20th 
 century. A pioneer of electronic music\, he also inspired pop music across
  all genres\, including Kraftwerk and Björk. The spectacular centrepiece 
 of Mittwoch aus Licht is the helicopter string quartet\, in which Stockhau
 sen expands the musical space beyond the theatre itself: The members of a 
 string quartet sit in four helicopters circling high above the audience. S
 ounds of strings meld with the helicopter blades\, floating down to the au
 dience from above. For our production\, the quartet will be performed live
  as a one-of-a-kind event for the whole city\, with film recordings of the
  quartet becoming part of the production. Award-winning duo Susanne Kenned
 y and Markus Selg\, who caused a sensation with Einstein on the Beach at T
 heater Basel and Parsifal at Opera Antwerpen\, will transform their first 
 opera production in Berlin into an immersive ritual. Maxime Pascal\, Princ
 ipal Guest Conductor under the new directorship\, is an expert and passion
 ate connoisseur of Stockhausen and has performed every piece of the LICHT 
 cycle except for Mittwoch.
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