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’.

Artists

Thomas Lehman (Lucifer), Jonas Grundner-Culemann (The Voice of God), Irene Roberts (The Air of Mystery), Valeriia Savinskaia (The Echo of The Air of Mystery), Clemens Bieber (The Mouth Speaking Great Words), Maire Therese Carmack (Despondency), Flurina Stucki (The Great Whore), AJ Glueckert (The Scarlet Beast), Andrew Dickinson (The Lie), Joel Allison (Hate); Deutsche Oper Berlin, Stephan Zilias