8 p.m., Thu 19 October 2017,
8 p.m., Sat 21 October 2017,
8 p.m., Sun 22 October 2017,
3 p.m.
Full
:
65 €
Discount Price and IRCAM Card (serie C)
:
52 €
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 © Klara Beck - ONR 2017
- Kein Licht © Klara Beck - ONR 2017
- Kein Licht © Klara Beck - ONR 2017
- Kein Licht avec Caroline Peters et Niels Bormann © Caroline Seidel
- En studio à l'Ircam, Philippe Manoury et Nicolas Stemann © Jérémie Szpirglas
- Caroline Peters, actrice © Jérémie Szpirglas
- Philippe Manoury et Thomas Goepfer en studio à l'Ircam © Jérémie Szpirglas
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.