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DESCRIPTION:Sep 19-27\, 2026\nCompleted in 2003\, Licht remains something o
 f a bridge to nowhere\, never yet performed in its entirety. A 29-hour “
 spiral” of seven operas named for the days of the week\, Licht stands as
  the maximum opus of Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928–2007)\, a mandarin of t
 he avant-garde who idealized the abstruse\, the more extreme the better. H
 e’s also the dude who outraged much of the planet when he declared the 9
 /11 attacks on the World Trade Center\, in 2001\, “the greatest work of 
 art imaginable for the whole cosmos.” (But then\, Licht was as yet incom
 plete.) It’s said that Stockhausen’s monster sprang from his encounter
  with the similarly massive\, woo-woo-to-the-max Urantia Book\, supposedly
  dictated by angels under circumstances that put Joseph Smith’s whoppers
  about The Book of Mormonto shame. Three principal force fields in Licht a
 re the archangel Michael\, Eve\, and Lucifer\, but if you can make head or
  tail of their interactions\, you’re light years ahead of most people. A
 s the incoming director of Berlin’s mighty Deutsche Oper\, Aviel Cahn tr
 umpets his disruptive intentions with an inaugural four-hour production of
  Wednesday. That’s the segment of Licht into which Stockhausen dropped h
 is one-whirlybird-per-musician Helicopter String Quartet\, a logistical ni
 ghtmare originally commissioned for the Salzburg Festival but canceled the
 re under pressure from Green activists. The director Susanne Kennedy’s a
 im\, we’re advised\, is “to turn consciousness itself into a stage\, g
 uiding the audience into a trance-like state.” Maxime Pascal\, a conduct
 or with a taste for the unconventional\, a brain for complexities\, and an
  instinct for hidden melody\, is likewise onboard\, which is promising.
LOCATION:Deutsche Oper\, Bismarckstraße 35\, 10627 Berlin\, Germany
SUMMARY:Karlheinz Stockhausen\, Wednesday from Light (Mittwoch aus Licht)
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