instrumental opera
New York
Production of Wiener Taschenoper
musicFabric
"Sometimes music vibrates beyond the clouds, and we can no longer hear its echo... very rarely is truly infinite; then it makes us forget the earth."
This cosmic story of Michael the angel, the sovereign of our universe, who leads humanity to God through love against Lucifer, the cosmic spirit of rebellion and destruction, is a mix of absurdity and spirituality performed by clarinets, trombones, violins and percussions instead of human voice. Michael is a trumpet player who flies on a crane that allows him to challenge gravity, making seven stop journey around the world represented by an orchestra consisting of 28 musicians. The journey is characterised by the sonic 'atmo-spheres', typical instruments, typical musical styles of the places visited.
The three main figures appear as musical forms, called 'formula' by Stockhausen, which allows the figure to be recognized aurally. Layered on top of one another, these three formulas comprise a composition, the 'super-formula', where the three different characteristic formulas confront each other, comprise vibrations that can be transformed into each other through transposition, stretching or compression; so one thing flows into the other, because it all has the same origin. That is the core of 'serial thinking'.
"This opera is also a promise of a more harmonious era following the suffering on this Earth, this human existence."
after-performance
This cosmic story of Michael the angel, the sovereign of our universe, who leads humanity to God through love against Lucifer, the cosmic spirit of rebellion and destruction, is a mix of absurdity and spirituality performed by clarinets, trombones, violins and percussions instead of human voice. Michael is a trumpet player who flies on a crane that allows him to challenge gravity, making seven stop journey around the world represented by an orchestra consisting of 28 musicians. The journey is characterised by the sonic 'atmo-spheres', typical instruments, typical musical styles of the places visited.
The three main figures appear as musical forms, called 'formula' by Stockhausen, which allows the figure to be recognized aurally. Layered on top of one another, these three formulas comprise a composition, the 'super-formula', where the three different characteristic formulas confront each other, comprise vibrations that can be transformed into each other through transposition, stretching or compression; so one thing flows into the other, because it all has the same origin. That is the core of 'serial thinking'.
"This opera is also a promise of a more harmonious era following the suffering on this Earth, this human existence."
Avery Hall
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