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On Sunday 11th November we present a unique concert at The Black Diamond's Queens Hall of purely Polish music, featuring legendary Smith Quartet (UK), pianist Tanja Zapolski and flutist Isabella Hübener.

The special occasion is the 100th anniversary of Poland regaining independence as a republic which will be celebrated worldwide in music through the project "100 for 100. Musical Decades of Freedom", organized by PWM Edition in Krakow.

Theatre of Voices have collaborated with PWM Edition on the program for the Copenhagen concert which will feature vocal and chamber music by three significant female composers: Krystyna Moszumańska-Nazar, Grażyna Bacewicz and Agata Zubel, as well as works by Rafał Augustyn, Witold Lutosławski and Henryk Górecki.

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Theatre of Voices is currently busy in Madrid at the Teatro Real in the Spanish production of Kaija Saariaho's opera "Only the Sound Remains". As was the case with the Paris production at Palais Garnier earlier this year, audiences and critics were ecstatic after the premiere.

Spain’s leading newspaper El Pais witnessed a “perfect dramatic-musical framework that continues to resonate in our heads after leaving the theater”, while also emphasizing “the four marvelous voices of Theatre of Voices” in the company of Phillip Jaroussky, Davone Tines, Eija Kankaanranta, Camilla Hoitenga, Heikki Parviainen and Meta4 Quartet – the outstanding Finnish string quartet. All conducted by Ivor Bolton under the direction of Peter Sellars.

Read more from El Pais’ review and others quotes here.

After the final Teatro Real performance on 9 November, Theatre of Voices will follow ”Only the Sound Remains” to its US premiere at New York’s Lincoln Center in two performances on 17 and 18 November.

TOV’s first major feature this season will be in enTmenschT [DehumaniseD] by the award-winning Danish composer Line Tjørnhøj and visual artist Signe Klejs – a music theatre installation for five voices and surround sound electronics set with elaborate visuals and costume designs.

Line Tjørnhøj states that ''it has been a wonderful privilege to share the creative process of enTmenschT with Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier. They have generously made themselves and their voices available, while kindly supporting the integrity of the work”.

In enTmenschT, Line Tjørnhøj deals with the dark, depraved, dehumanised sides of humanity, based on some of the most extreme and expressive characters in the history of art, Oskar Kokoschka og Charlotte Salomon and their respective lovers Alma Mahler and Alfred Wolfsohn.

For Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier says that ''the process of bringing this marvelous and unusual work to fruition is the kind of thing for which I created Theatre of Voices in the first place. We have shared in the making of the work, yet I must say this remains Line Tjørnhøj's vision through and through. We are proud to be involved”.

EntMenschT [Dehumanised] at Åbne Scene, Godsbanen, Aarhus:
Saturday 15 September at 15:00
Sunday 16 September at 15:00

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Read more in-depth about enTmenschT and the thoughts behind in this fine interview with Line Tjørnhøj by her publisher Edition-S