Langgaard: Antikrist (DVD)

Composer: Rued Langgaard
Artists: Thomas Lehman, Jonas Grundner-Culemann, Irene Roberts, Valeriia Savinskaia, Clemens Bieber, Maire Therese Carmack, Flurina Stucki, AJ Glueckert, Andrew Dickinson, Joel Allison, Opera Ballet of the Deutsch Oper Berlin, Chorus & Orchestra of the Deutsch Oper Berlin
Conductor: Stephan Zilias
Director: Ersan Mondtag
Video Format: NTSC 16:9
Sound Format: PCM Stereo / DTS Surround 5.1
Region: All Regions
Language: German
Subtitles: German, English, Japanese, Korean
Number of Discs: 1
Studio: Naxos
Release Date: July 26, 2024
Run Time: 102 minutes

Rued Langgaard’s remarkable opera Antikrist confronts the decline and fall of Western civilization, critiquing modern lifestyles and ways of thinking, which resonates with our time 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 civilization’s weaknesses. 

This spectacular Deutsche Oper Berlin production was acclaimed in The New York Times as a “riotously colorful, boldly stylized staging [in] a near-breathless swirl.”

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