Licht
Sign in to savethumb|275px|Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT . Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. The composer described the work as an "eternal spiral" because "there is neither end nor beginning to the week." Licht consists of 29 hours of music.
Key facts
- Opera.name
- LichtDie sieben Tage der Woche
- Opera.type
- Opera cycle
- Opera.composer
- Karlheinz Stockhausen
- Opera.image
- Stockhausen March 2004 excerpt.jpg
- Opera.image_upright
- 1.2
- Opera.caption
- The librettist and composer in March 2004
- Opera.translated_name
- Light – The Seven Days of the Week
- Opera.librettist
- Stockhausen
- Opera.language
- German
- Opera.premiere_date
- to 2012
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Article
16 sectionsContents
- Origin
- Structure
- The seven days
- Monday (1984–1988)
- Tuesday (1977–1991)
- Wednesday (1992–1998)
- Thursday (1978–1980)
- Friday (1991–1994)
- Saturday (1981–1983)
- Sunday (1998–2003)
- Auxiliary works
- Performances
- World premières
- References
- Further reading
- External links
thumb|275px|Karlheinz Stockhausens grave with the score to LICHT . Licht (Light), subtitled "Die sieben Tage der Woche" (The Seven Days of the Week), is a cycle of seven operas composed by Karlheinz Stockhausen between 1977 and 2003. The composer described the work as an "eternal spiral" because "there is neither end nor beginning to the week." Licht consists of 29 hours of music.
==Origin== The Licht opera project, originally titled Hikari (光, Japanese for "light"), originated with a piece for dancers and Gagaku orchestra commissioned by the National Theatre in Tokyo. Titled Der Jahreslauf (The Course of the Years), this piece became the first act of Dienstag. Another important Japanese influence is from Noh theater, which the composer cites in connection with his conception of stage action. The cycle also draws on elements from the Judeo-Christian and Vedic traditions. The title of Licht owes something to Sri Aurobindo's theory of "Agni" (the Hindu and Vedic fire deity), developed from two basic premises of nuclear physics, and Stockhausen's conception of the Licht superformula also owes a great deal to Sri Aurobindo's category of the "supramental". It is centered on three main characters, Michael, Eve, and Lucifer.