Language: German
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Kein Licht is based on a text by Nobel Prize‐winning author Elfriede Jelinek.
March 11, 2011. An earthquake and the resulting tsunami devastate the eastern coast of Japan. The cooling systems of the Fukushima nuclear power plant fall out of service, the cores of two reactors melt. The repercussions are enormous, at the global level, on the place of nuclear power in the energy policies of states.

An eagerly expected creation already rewarded by an international prize. The work inspired by the Fukushima disaster is the fruit of Philippe Manoury and Nicolas Stemann based on a text by Elfriede Jelinek, the author of The Piano Teacher and Nobel Prize in literature. Kein Licht. Thinkspiel for actors, instrumentalists and electronic music in real time based on a text by Elfriede Jelinek. Commissioned by the Opéra Comique. World premiere on 25 August 2017 as part of the Ruhrtriennale, Germany.

Committed and moralistic, Nobel Prize laureate Elfriede Jelinek soon wrote Kein Licht, a variation of monologues expressing terror, grief, loss and anger in a highly musical writing. Nicolas Stemann is familiar with her texts which he often stages. Philippe Manoury works on the interaction between acoustics and computing and explores new forms of musical theater.

With Kein Licht, Stemann and Manoury organize a meeting between text theater and theater music composed beforehand or in real time. They offer us a visual and polyphonic reflection, which is also interactive and humorous, on the place of technology in our lives and the place of life in the face of technology.

Director: Nicolas Stemann (Director), Julien Leroy (Music Director)
Cast: Sarah Maria Sun (Soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (Mezzo), Christina Daletska (Contralto), Lionel Painter (Baritone), Caroline Peters / Niels Bormann (Actors), Karina Laproye ("Cheeky" dog)