Mittwoch aus Licht – review

Argyle Works, BirminghamKarlheinz Stockhausen spent 27 years composing the seven operas, one for each day of the week, that make up his monumental Licht cycle.He finished the whole work in 2004, and while every individual scene of each opera had been commissioned and performed separately over the years, by the time he died three years later, he had also been able to see all but two of the operas complete on stage.Cologne Opera put on one of the missing ones, Sonntag aus Licht (Sunday from Light)...

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