Karlheinz Stockhausen - Evas Zauber

Montag aus Licht - Evas Zauber l Eve's Magic.

Act 3 of the opera MONDAY from LIGHT. It features an orchestra with synthesizers (called a "modern orchestra" by Stockhausen), backing 21 performers (14 voices, 6 instruments and an actor), as well as adult and children's choirs. Monday's exoteric colour is bright green.

00:00 Scene 1: Botschaft (Message)
26:42 Scene 2: Der Kinderfänger (The Pied Piper) ["The Child-Catcher"]
44:27 Scene 3: Entführung (Abduction)

Monday focuses on the character of Eve, on the feminine side of existence, on birth. Monday is the day of the moon, lunae dies in Latin, and the moon has been traditionally associated with the feminine, in contrast to the sun, which was regarded as masculine. In myths and legends, it is a symbol of fertility, and veneration of the "lesser light" of the moon is a cult of the creative and productive power of nature, of the instinctive wisdom and shadowy perceptions that rule the night.

The opera is in three acts with scenes and subscenes (called "situations" by the composer) and is framed by a "greeting" and a "farewell." This framing applies, with variation, to each opera in the cycle: a "greeting" in the foyer of the opera house played by an ensemble of musicians, and a "farewell" after the performance, played outside the theater, in one case from surrounding rooftops by trumpeters.

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