Langgaard: Antikrist (BD)

Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin;
Zilias, Stephan

NBD 0176 V

Valeriia Savinskaia, Flurina Stucki - Sopranos
Irene Roberts, Maire Therese Carmack - Mezzo-sopranos
Clemens Bieber, AJ Glueckert, Andrew Dickinson - Tenors
Thomas Lehman - Baritone
Joel Allison - Bass-baritone
Jonas Grundner-Culemann - Speaker
Ersan Mondtag - Stage director

Rued Langgaard’s remarkable opera Antikrist confronts the decline and fall of Western civilisation, 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 exposé of contemporary civilisation’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’.

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Muzyka klasyczna

Naxos

02-07-2024

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