Morgen und Abend (German: Morning and Evening) is an opera by Georg Friedrich Haas to a libretto by the Norwegian writer Jon Fosse.
[2] The opera, which lasts about 90 minutes, outlines the birth and death of a fisherman, Johannes.
In the next section Johannes meditates on his child Signe and speaks with his friend Peter and his wife Erna, but eventually realizes that as the latter two have long since died, he himself must also be dead.
[3] Richard Morrison, writing in The Times, opined that although the piece was slow to develop "By the end...I felt I was watching a very weird masterpiece".
Rupert Christiansen, writing in The Daily Telegraph found the work "hypnotically beautiful yet turgidly tedious...Yet Haas’s music casts a spell...it moves like Scandinavian weather – clouds scudding, mists thickening, wind keening, thunderclaps crashing – through a glacial landscape of shimmering microtonal sound that is both precisely calibrated and eerily atmospheric".