Valeriia Savinskaia; Flurina Stucki; Irene Roberts; Maire Therese Carmack; Clemens Bieber; AJ Glueckert; Andrew Dickinson; Thomas Lehman; Joel Allison; Jonas Grundner-Culemann; Orchestra and Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin; Stephan Zilias - Rued Langgaard: Antikrist

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 expose 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'.