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Wed 18 October 2017,
8 p.m., Thu 19 October 2017,
8 p.m., Sat 21 October 2017,
8 p.m., Sun 22 October 2017,
3 p.m.

Opéra Comique

Prices

Full : 65 €
Discount Price and IRCAM Card (serie C) : 52 €

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Creation

Opera

Kein Licht

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Premiere 2017

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Content:
Kein Licht is inspired by the catastrophe in Fukushima. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and the resulting tsunami ravaged the east coast of Japan. Two reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant experienced a meltdown and threatened the environment. Reacting to this worldwide trauma, Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature wrote a long monologue on horror, pain, loss, and anger. Beginning with this material, the young German director Nicolas Stemann, familiar with Jelinek and the composer Philippe Manoury, brought together by the Opéra Comique, have imagined an opera on the interactions between actors and musicians, between acoustic and computing, between spoken and sung. What life faced with technology, what collective faced with the opera? A dramatic perspective in which an institution on advanced technology, IRCAM, takes part. Commissioned by the Opéra Comique - Opera in German subtitled in French Philippe Manoury music Elfriede Jelinek text Julien Leroy conductor Nicolas Stemann director Katrin Nottrodt stage design Claudia Lehmann video Marysol del Castillo costumes Rainer Casper lighting Thomas Goepfer  IRCAM Computer-Music design Christophe Manien choir master Christèle Ortu assistant director Émilie Cognard assistante stage design Clémentine Tonnelier assistante costumes Ruth Orthmann translator Sarah Maria Sun soprano Olivia Vermeulen mezzo-soprano Christina Daletska contralto Lionel Peintre baritone Caroline Peters, Niels Bormann actors Choeur du National Theater in Zagreb vocal quartet United instruments of Lucilin This spectacle is presented as a part of the 40th anniversary of IRCAM-Centre Pompidou.

Kein Licht is inspired by the catastrophe in Fukushima. On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and the resulting tsunami ravaged the east coast of Japan. Two reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant experienced a meltdown and threatened the environment. Reacting to this worldwide trauma, Elfriede Jelinek, Austrian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature wrote a long monologue on horror, pain, loss, and anger. Beginning with this material, the young German director Nicolas Stemann, familiar with Jelinek and the composer Philippe Manoury, brought together by the Opéra Comique, have imagined an opera on the interactions between actors and musicians, between acoustic and computing, between spoken and sung. What life faced with technology, what collective faced with the opera? A dramatic perspective in which an institution on advanced technology, IRCAM, takes part.

Commissioned by the Opéra Comique - Opera in German subtitled in French

Philippe Manoury music
Elfriede Jelinek text
Julien Leroy conductor
Nicolas Stemann director
Katrin Nottrodt stage design
Claudia Lehmann video
Marysol del Castillo costumes
Rainer Casper lighting
Thomas Goepfer IRCAM Computer-Music design

Christophe Manien choir master
Christèle Ortu assistant director
Émilie Cognard assistante stage design
Clémentine Tonnelier assistante costumes
Ruth Orthmann translator

Sarah Maria Sun soprano
Olivia Vermeulen mezzo-soprano
Christina Daletska contralto
Lionel Peintre baritone

Caroline Peters, Niels Bormann actors

Choeur du National Theater in Zagreb vocal quartet
United instruments of Lucilin

This spectacle is presented as a part of the 40th anniversary of IRCAM-Centre Pompidou.

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An Opéra Comique production. Coproduced by Ruhrtriennale, Festival Musica de Strasbourg, Opéra National du Rhin, Théâtre National Croate de Zagreb, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, IRCAM–Centre Pompidou, United instruments of Lucilin, Münchner Kammerspiele, and 105 individual donors. With the support of the Fonds de création lyrique, d’Impuls neue Musik, Fonds franco-allemand pour la musique contemporain, and Fedora.

Before the Show

Introduction to the opera

Presentation of the production at 7.30pm with historical and musical descriptions (in french) with Agnès Terrier.
Free entry upon presentation of your ticket.

Sing Kein Licht

Sing the opéra at 7.15 pm with Christophe Grapperon on October 19 & 21 and Jeanne Dambreville on October 18 & 22.
Free entry upon presentation of your ticket.

Meet the artists

Meet the artists of the production on Saturday 21 October at 4 pm.
Free. Reservations required.