Licht: Stockhausen's Legacy

Name: Licht: Stockhausen's Legacy
Start: 2024-08-26T19:00:00+02:00
Location: Cinema Montgrí

Documentary about Stockhausen's 'Licht' opera cycle

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Monday 26 August | 19:00 h

Cinema Montgrí

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Director: Oeke Hoogendijk | 2022 | Netherlands | 122 minutes

Megalomania, mysticism and genius ahead of its time. The first full performance of the colossal operatic cycle Licht (29 hours spread over 7 days) by the German composer and electronic pioneer Karlheinz Stockhausen reveals, with the brutally honest testimony of members of his family circle, the obsessive world view and complex sentimental life of the so-called ‘father of techno’.