Le Balcon is staging the first two acts of Donnerstag aus Licht at the Philharmonie de Paris. Donnerstag, the first of the seven operas in Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Licht cycle, tells the story of the angel Michael, as a stylised version of the composer’s autobiography. 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 CeminPicture © Meng Phu
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