Licht - World Premières

World Premières

  • Donnerstag (Thursday) - 1981, at La Scala in Milan
  • Samstag (Saturday) - May 1984, at La Scala in Milan
  • Montag (Monday) - 1988, at La Scala in Milan
  • Dienstag (Tuesday) - 1993, at the Leipzig Opera
  • Freitag (Friday) - September 1996 - at the Leipzig Opera
  • Mittwoch (Wednesday) - staged première of the entire opera by Birmingham Opera Company, 22 August 2012, The Argyle Works, Birmingham (Clements 2012); première broadcast as a whole by SWR in 2003; première stagings of the individual scenes were as follows:
    • Scene 1 Welt-Parlament ("World Parliament") - 1996, Stuttgart
    • Scene 2 Orchester-Finalisten ("Orchestra Finalists") - 1996, Holland Festival, Amsterdam
    • Scene 3 Helikopter-Streichquartett - 1995 Holland Festival, Amsterdam
    • Scene 4 Michaelion July 1998, in the Prinzregententheater, Munich
  • Sonntag (Sunday) - broadcast as a whole by SWR in 2007; première staging as a whole was on 9 April (Scenes 1, 2 and 3) and 10 April (Scenes 4 and 5 and the Farewell), 2011, in Cologne

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