This year I worked as a makeup artist on a week long performance of 'Mittwoch Aus Licht' by Birmingham Opera Company.
Graham Vick directed the world premiere of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s opera Mittwoch aus Licht
for Birmingham Opera Company. Comprising a string quartet performing in
helicopters, electronic and acoustic music and a dancing camel, it the
first time the opera, often thought to be unstageable, has been
performed in its entirety.
In August 2012 Mittwoch aus Licht/Wednesday from Light
finally hit the stage – or rather a former chemical works in the middle
of Birmingham. Internationally acclaimed opera director Graham Vick
assembled an outstanding artistic team with his unique Birmingham Opera
Company featuring some 150 performers.
Under the musical direction of Stockhausen’s long-time collaborator,
Kathinka Pasveer the line-up included Birmingham’s Ex Cathedra and
London Voices with an array of virtuoso orchestral soloists as well as
local performers recruited and trained through the company’s
award-winning participation programme. Radio 1 DJ Nihal was Moderator.
This landmark event will took place in the extraordinary Argyle
Works, a former chemical plant and venue for Birmingham Opera Company’s
production of Verdi’s Othello.
Of his monumental achievement Licht, (Light) a cycle of 7 operas, one for each day of the week, Mittwoch (Wednesday) is the only part of the cycle that Stockhausen never saw staged.
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| Photography by Katja Ogrin |
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