Half my Voice is Human

In their concert, the singers of Sjaella combine early music with contemporary music and captivate the audience with their voices and movements. They make nature audible: In Caroline Shaw's "Dolce cantavi", the birds speak in colourful lutes, in Meredi's minimalist "Crystallized", ice and water communicate with each other, cracking and gurgling, and the seasons enter into a baroque competition in Henry Purcell's semi-opera "The Fairy Queen". At the heart of the program is the thought-provoking work "What Would Circe Do?" by Australian composer Wally Gunn, premiered in 2025, with a libretto by Sjaella alto Felicitas Erben. Circe, the Greek goddess and plant alchemist with a human voice, is asked for advice: how can the essentials find their way back into our silenced hearts? With sound and physical expression, Sjaella directs our attention to the power of nature.

Program:

Henry Purcell (1659-1695), arr. Sjaella: A Bird's Prelude (from: The Fairy Queen); Clément Janequin (ca. 1485-1558), arr. Susanne Blache (*1962): Le Rossignol (from: Le chant des oiseaux); Caroline Shaw (*1982): Dolce cantavi; Henry Purcell (1659-1695), arr. Gregor Meyer (*1979): Thus the ever grateful spring (Spring), Here's the Summer, Sprightly, Gay (Summer), See My Many Coloured Fields (Autumn), Now Winter Comes Slowly (Winter) (from: The Fairy Queen), texts after A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare; Meredi (*1992): Crystallized; Wally Gunn (*1971): What Would Circe Do?

Tickets: EUR 25 reduced EUR 15

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