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Deutsche Oper, Berlin – Langgaard’s Antikrist – Kyle Miller, Jonas Grundner-Culemann & Valeriia Savinskaia; directed by Ersan Mondtag; conducted by Hermann Bäumer

Rued Langgaard’s sole opera Antikrist (1921-3, revised 1926-30) – subtitled by him ‘Church Opera’ or ‘Judgment Scenes’ – was never staged in his lifetime, and wasn’t premiered until 1999 at the Tiroler Landestheater, Innsbruck. Based upon a poem by P. E. Benzon, and ultimately inspired by the visions of the apocalypse in the Bible’s Book of Revelation, …

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