First day of Licht, which premiered on 3 April 1981 at La Scala in Milan.
A double embodiment of both the composer and the archangel Michael, Michael – portrayed in three roles by a singer, a dancer and a trumpeter – is first a child with his parents, then a man in love, an artist and a traveller, and finally an archangel confronting evil, a messenger of peace and an intercessor between humans and God. Exploring time, engaging with space, and involving both performers and audience alike, Donnerstag is the first of the seven operas of Karlheinz Stockhausen's Licht cycle. Musical direction Maxime PascalStage direction Benjamin LazarSound design Florent DerexComputer music production Augustin MullerVocal coach Alain MullerChorus master Richard WilberforceSet and costume design Adeline CaronLighting Christophe Naillet, Sébastien BöhmVideo Yann ChapotelChoreography Emmanuelle GrachArtistic collaboration Alphonse Cemin
