Karlheinz Stockhausen | MICHAELs REISE | musikFabrik

During Pentecost 2008 Carlos Padrissa, who is one of the founding members of the remarkable street theatre group La Fura dels Baus, staged Michaels Reise um die Erde (Michaels journey around the Earth) with musikFabrik for the Austrian Première. This is the 2nd purely instrumental act of Stockhausens opera „Donnerstag (Thursday) from his „Licht (Light) cycle.

musikFabriks trumpeter Marco Blaauw plays the role of Michael, the supreme angel who travels to seven destinations around the world with numerous spectacular flights. During his journey he meets Eva, an allegory of life that is performed by Nicola Jürgensen (Bassett horn).

The seven stations of this trip represent with their varied thematic emphases the seven weekdays of the „Licht (Light) cycle. The whole opera cycle portrays in an exemplary fashion the complete spectrum of life with its poles between war and peace, love and hatred, destruction and resurrection, beauty and ugliness, banality and spiritual depth and is compositionally connected by Stockhausens "Superformel" (super formula), with which each player is allocated a musical formula, a colour, a day and certain characteristics.

Videotrailer | Valerij Lisac | www.klanghafen.de

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[anyroxtar]

wow. looks amazing

[lupinebeast]

I like it. Stockhausen here sounds like cosmic avant garde jazz.