Antikrist (Sung in German)

Composer: Langgaard, Rued

Librettist/Text Author: Langgaard, Rued

Librettist/Text Author: Wesemann, Monika

Librettist/Text Author: Methlagl, Inger

Librettist/Text Author: Methlagl, Walther

Conductor: Zilias, Stephan

Orchestra: Berlin Deutsche Opera Orchestra

Chorus: Berlin Deutsche Opera Chorus

Chorus Master: Bines, Jeremy

Despondency: Carmack, Maire Therese

Hate: Allison, Joel

Lucifer: Lehman, Thomas

The Air of Mystery: Roberts, Irene

The Echo of The Air of Mystery: Savinskaia, Valeriia

The Great Whore: Stucki, Flurina

The Lie: Dickinson, Andrew

The Scarlet Beast: Glueckert, AJ

The The Mouth Speaking Great Wordsy: Bieber, Clemens

The Voice of God: Grundner-Culemann, Jonas

Set Designer: Mondtag, Ersan

Costume Designer: Mondtag, Ersan

Costume Designer: Lu, Annika

Lighting Designer: Casper, Rainer

Choreographer: Fordeyn, Rob

Stage Director: Mondtag, Ersan

Television Director: Filenius, Gotz

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Date of Production: 02-2023

Venue: Deutsche Oper Berlin

Playing Time: 01:41:40

Catalogue Number: 2.110764

UPC: 747313576456

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Rued Langgaard's remarkable opera Antikrist confronts the decline and fall of Western civilization, critiquing modern lifestyles and ways of thinking, which resonates with our times more than ever before. Never performed in the composer's lifetime, Antikrist blends Romantic and contemporary styles to create a score that is both seductive and opulent, while the lack of a conventional plot creates space for an ironic and sarcastic expose of contemporary civilization's weaknesses.

This spectacular Deutsche Oper Berlin production was acclaimed in The New York Times as a "riotously colourful, boldly stylised staging [in] a near-breathless swirl".