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Arthur Honegger, König David

Anna Terterjan, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Mikolaj Kapala, tenor
Anika Brockmann, narrator
IntoNation – Choir of the Hochschule Bremen
Orchestra
Ines Piña and Mai Ferreira, video projections
Julio Fernández, conductor

Tickets: 20 / 15 Euro (advance), 25 / 20 Euro (door)
Advance sales via Nordwest-Ticket, Hochschule Bremen and the Kulturkirche St. Stephani. Remaining tickets at the door

Kulturkirche St. Stephani
Stephanikirchhof 8
28195 Bremen
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Missa Luba traditional music from the Congo, arranged by Guido Haazen Jacob Gallus, Confirma Hoc

Margaret Hunter, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Michel Gattwinkel, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, bass
Capella St. Martini
Matthew Glandorf, musical direction

Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Official debut concert of musical director Matthew C. Glandorf. Works by Thomas Tomkins (1572-1656), Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) and David Briggs (*1962).

Margaret Hunter, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Michel Gattwinkel, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, bass
Capella St. Martini
Kai-Niko Henke, organ
Matthew Glandorf, musical direction
Achim Krebber, pastor

Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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G.P. Telemann: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied as part of church services

Soloists
Kammerchor Arte Vocale
Michael Huß, Conducter

St. Cyprian & Cornelius
Ring 14
27777 Ganderkesee
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SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger

Performance by and with: Saioa Alvarez Ruiz, Born In Flamez, Gibrana Cervantes, Renée Copraij, Luz de Luna Duran, Sophie Duncan, Blathin Eckhardt, Fibi Eyewalker, Jasko Fide, Paige A. Flash, Fleshpiece, Florentina Holzinger, Sara Lancerio, Laura London, Annina Machaz, Malin Nilsson, Xana Novais, Netti Nüganen, otay:onii, Veronica Thompson
Cornelia Zink, soprano
Andrea Baker, mezzo-soprano
Emma Rothmann, contralto
Women of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater opera choir and guests
Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin
Stage direction, Choreography & Performance: Florentina Holzinger
Musical Direction: Marit Strindlund

Tickets go on sale May 17, 2025 at 2:00 pm
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SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger

Performance by and with: Saioa Alvarez Ruiz, Born In Flamez, Gibrana Cervantes, Renée Copraij, Luz de Luna Duran, Sophie Duncan, Blathin Eckhardt, Fibi Eyewalker, Jasko Fide, Paige A. Flash, Fleshpiece, Florentina Holzinger, Sara Lancerio, Laura London, Annina Machaz, Malin Nilsson, Xana Novais, Netti Nüganen, otay:onii, Veronica Thompson
Cornelia Zink, soprano
Andrea Baker, mezzo-soprano
Emma Rothmann, contralto
Women of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater opera choir and guests
Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin
Stage direction, Choreography & Performance: Florentina Holzinger
Musical Direction: Marit Strindlund

Tickets go on sale May 17, 2025 at 2:00 pm
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SANCTA by Florentina Holzinger

Performance by and with: Saioa Alvarez Ruiz, Born In Flamez, Gibrana Cervantes, Renée Copraij, Luz de Luna Duran, Sophie Duncan, Blathin Eckhardt, Fibi Eyewalker, Jasko Fide, Paige A. Flash, Fleshpiece, Florentina Holzinger, Sara Lancerio, Laura London, Annina Machaz, Malin Nilsson, Xana Novais, Netti Nüganen, otay:onii, Veronica Thompson
Cornelia Zink, soprano
Andrea Baker, mezzo-soprano
Emma Rothmann, contralto
Women of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater opera choir and guests
Orchestra of the Komische Oper, Berlin
Stage direction, Choreography & Performance: Florentina Holzinger
Musical Direction: Marit Strindlund

Tickets go on sale May 17, 2025 at 2:00 pm
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W.A. Mozart (1756-1791): Missa Brevis in C Dur "Spatzenmesse" KV220

Carmen Callejas Garcia, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Enrico Busia, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, bass
Capella der St. Martini-Kirche, Barockensemble
Matthew Glandorf, conductor
Jennifer Murasch, pastor

Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Heinrich Schütz: Excerpts from the Johannespassion
Antonio Lotti: Crucifixus à 8

Carmen Callejas Garcia, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Enrico Busia, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, bass
Capella der St. Martini-Kirche, Barockensemble
Matthew Glandorf, conductor
Achim Krebber, pastor

Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri
J. S. Bach: Kantate BWV 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
Johann Theile, Schaffe in mir Gott ein reines Herz

Soloists
Die Kleine Kantorei
Conducted by: Jonathan Hiese

Unser Lieben Frauen Kirche Bremen
ULF Kirchhof
28195 Bremen More Information

J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 131 Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir
Michael Tippett: Five Spirituals from Child of our Time
Thomas Morley: Out of the Deep
J.S. Bach: Chorale from Cantata BWV 23, Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn

Carmen Callejas Garcia, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Enrico Busia, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, bass
Capella der St. Martini-Kirche and orchestra
Conducted by Matthew Glandorf

Tickets (at the door)€ 20 / € 15 students and seniors
Free admission for under-18-year-olds

Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Dietrich Buxtehude: Membra Jesu nostri
J. S. Bach: Kantate BWV 150, Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich
Johann Theile, Schaffe in mir Gott ein reines Herz

Soloists
Die Kleine Kantorei
Conducted by Jonathan Hiese

Liebfrauenkirche Fischerhude
Kirchstraße, 28870 Fischerhude
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L. van Beethoven, Missa solemnis D-dur op. 123
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Eva Zaïcik, alto
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Gabriel Rollinson, bass
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester
Conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
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L. van Beethoven, Missa solemnis D-dur op. 123
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Eva Zaïcik, alto
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Gabriel Rollinson, bass
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester
Conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
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L. van Beethoven, Missa solemnis D-dur op. 123
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Eva Zaïcik, alto
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Gabriel Rollinson, bass
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester
Conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
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L. van Beethoven, Missa solemnis D-dur op. 123
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Eva Zaïcik, alto
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Gabriel Rollinson, bass
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester
Conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
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L. van Beethoven, Missa solemnis D-dur op. 123
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Eva Zaïcik, alto
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Gabriel Rollinson, bass
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester
Conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
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L. van Beethoven, Missa solemnis D-dur op. 123
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Eva Zaïcik, alto
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Gabriel Rollinson, bass
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester
Conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
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L. van Beethoven, Missa solemnis D-dur op. 123
Regula Mühlemann, soprano
Eva Zaïcik, alto
Julian Prégardien, tenor
Gabriel Rollinson, bass
Balthasar-Neumann-Chor
Balthasar-Neumann-Orchester
Conducted by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, Chiquinha Gonzaga and Clarence Cameron White

Although European and American music history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries focuses on white composers, pioneering composers of color were also active during the Romantic era, enriching and expanding classical music with their compositions. This moderated concert presents four composers whose life and works made an impact on the musical world in spite of marginalization and discrimination.

Namu Ensemble
Dannielle Seiler, concept and arrangements
Julie Comparini, voice and moderation

St. Martini zu Bremen-Lesum
Hindenburgstr. 30
28717 Bremen
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Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, Chiquinha Gonzaga and Clarence Cameron White

Although European and American music history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries focuses on white composers, pioneering composers of color were also active during the Romantic era, enriching and expanding classical music with their compositions. This moderated concert presents four composers whose life and works made an impact on the musical world in spite of marginalization and discrimination.

Namu Ensemble
Dannielle Seiler, concept and arrangements
Julie Comparini, voice and moderation

Zentrum für Kunst im Tabakquartier
Hermann-Ritter-Straße 108 E
28197 Bremen
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Works by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Florence Price, Chiquinha Gonzaga and Clarence Cameron White

Although European and American music history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries focuses on white composers, pioneering composers of color were also active during the Romantic era, enriching and expanding classical music with their compositions. This moderated concert presents four composers whose life and works made an impact on the musical world in spite of marginalization and discrimination.

Namu Ensemble
Dannielle Seiler, concept and arrangements
Julie Comparini, voice and moderation

Dom zu Verden, Großer Saal
Lugenstein 10-12
27283 Verden
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J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 217, Gedenke, Herr, wie es uns gehet
Johann Christoph Altnickol: Motet Befiehl du deine Wege
J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 16 Herr Gott, dich loben wir

Friederike Stübner-Garbade, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Christian Volkmann, tenor
Carsten Krüger, bass
Vokalenemble terra nova
Ensemble Concerto Giovanni Battista, Paul Wicke
Conducted by Katja Zerbst

Ev. Kirchengemeinde Oberneuland
Hohenkampsweg 6
28355 Bremen

Tickets €24 / €18 erm.
Tickets at the door or in the Oberneuland Magazin-Ticketshop

J.S. Bach, Kyrie und Sanctus
Henry Purcell, Te Deum und Jubilate

Christine Süßmuth, Carmen Callejas Garcia, soprano
Nina Böhlke, Julie Comparini, alto
Michel Gattwinkel, Christian Bratschke, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, Miguel Callejas, bass
Musical direction: Matthew Glandorf

Ev. Kirche St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Heinrich Schütz, Psalm 2 Warum toben die Heiden
Heinrich Schütz, Weihnachtshistorie (Auszüge)
John Rutter, Dormi Jesu

Christine Süßmuth, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Benjamin Kirchner, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, bass
Capella St. Martini-Kirche
Musical direction: Matthew Glandorf

Ev. Kirche St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Heinrich Fidelis Müller: Weihnachtsoratorium (1879)

Soloists
Capella vocalis and motet choir of the Trinitatisgemeinde Bremen
Project orchestra
Musical direction: Jürgen Marxmeier

St. Johannis in Arbergen
Arberger Heerstr. 69
28307 Bremen

Admission free, donations requested.
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Vocal ensemble
Capella St. Martini
Musical direction: Matthew Glandorf

Ev. Kirche St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Sacred cantatas and instrumental music by Johann Philipp Käfer
La Protezione della Musica
Musical direction: Jeroen Finke

Findorff-Kirche Grasberg
Speckmannstraße 40
28879 Grasberg
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Linienstraße 227
D-10178 Berlin

Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz
Linienstraße 227
D-10178 Berlin

Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Dietrich Buxtehude, Alles, was ihr tut
J.S. Bach, BWV 72, Alles nur nach Gottes Willen
J.S. Bach, BWV 169, Gott soll allein mein Herze haben
P.H. Erlebach, Ouvertüre Nr. 5 in F-Dur

Margaret Hunter, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Miguel Callejas, bass

Nordwestdeutsches Barockorchester
Kantorei St. Nicolai
Musical direction: Gerhard Schühle

St. Nicolaikirche Wittmund
Am Kirchplatz 2
26409 Wittmund

Admission € 18 / € 12 ermäßigt
Presented by the Ev.-luth. Kirchengemeinde Wittmund in cooperation with the Kulturring Wittmund
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Brecht-Revue -- Benefit Concert for refugio

Der Paß ist der edelste Teil von einem Menschen. Er kommt auch nicht auf so einfache Weise zustande wie ein Mensch. Ein Mensch kann überall zustande kommen, auf die leichtsinnigste Art und ohne gescheiten Grund, aber ein Paß niemals. Dafür wird er auch anerkannt, wenn er gut ist, während ein Mensch so gut sein kann und doch nicht anerkannt wird.
Bertolt Brecht, Flüchtlingsgespräche (1941)

Singers Julie Comparini, Evelyn Gramel, and Manja Stephan perform texts by Bertolt Brecht set to music by AC/DC, Paul Dessau, Hanns Eisler, Pink Floyd, Kurt Weill, Led Zeppelin, as well as new works.

Julie Comparini, Evelyn Gramel, Manja Stephan, voice
Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester
Matthias Entrup, percussion
Directed by Peter Schenk

Kulturkirche St. Stephani, 28195 Bremen
Admission 23 / 14 Euro. Tikets available via Nordwest-Ticket, in the Evangelischen Informationszentrum "Kapitel 8", in the Humboldt-Buchandlung und the Georg-Büchner-Buchhandlung, and at the door.

Benefit concert for the Stiftung refugio in support of refugees, with additional support from the Arbeitnehmerkammer Bremen, the Kulturkirche St. Stephani and the Lutheran-Protestant Church of Bremen.
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Music from Byrd und Haydn as part of church services.

Christine Süßmuth, soprano
Julie Comparini, alto
Christian Volkmann, tenor
Alexander Schuhmann, bass
Musical Director: Matthew Glandorf

Ev. Kirche St. Martini-Lesum
Hindenburgstraße 30
28717 Bremen
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Claude LeJeune (c.1528 - 1600): from Le Printemps (1603)
Jean Berger (1909-2002): Six rondeaux (1968)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Cinq rechants (1948)

Chants & Rechants is a new concert program that explores the influence of Renaissance music and texts on French composers of the 20th century. Its central work is the Cinq rechants by Olivier Messiaen, a work inspired by the structure of chants (verses) and rechants (refrains) in Claude LeJeunes 1603 collection Le Printemps. Together with pieces from Le Printemps and the Six rondeaux for voice and viola by Jean Berger, the program illustrates the constant dialogue between "old" and "new" that has accompanied musical history throughout the centuries.

Concept and programming: Julie Comparini
With Julie Comparini (contralto), Yuko Hara (viola), Bernhard Reichel (lute)
Orchid Kammerchor
Conducted by: Keno Hankel

Sunday, September 22nd 2024, 7:00 pm
Klosterkirche Lilienthal
Klosterstraße 14, 28865 Lilienthal

Claude LeJeune (c.1528 - 1600): from Le Printemps (1603)
Jean Berger (1909-2002): Six rondeaux (1968)
Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992): Cinq rechants (1948)

Chants & Rechants is a new concert program that explores the influence of Renaissance music and texts on French composers of the 20th century. Its central work is the Cinq rechants by Olivier Messiaen, a work inspired by the structure of chants (verses) and rechants (refrains) in Claude LeJeunes 1603 collection Le Printemps. Together with pieces from Le Printemps and the Six rondeaux for voice and viola by Jean Berger, the program illustrates the constant dialogue between "old" and "new" that has accompanied musical history throughout the centuries.

Concept and programming: Julie Comparini
With Julie Comparini (contralto), Yuko Hara (viola), Bernhard Reichel (lute)
Orchid Kammerchor
Conducted by: Keno Hankel

Saturday, September 21st 2024, 8:00 pm
Propsteikirche St. Johann
Klosterkirchenstraße, 28195 Bremen

What are days for? To wake us up. To put between the endless nights. What are the nights for? To slip through time into another world.
-- Laurie Anderson

Under a waning half-moon and the watchful eyes of the river guards, six boats glide through twilight into darkness. Their illuminating lanterns cast shadows onto the water's surface and the reedy riverbanks; the night air is filled with the sweet sound of baroque music.

Every boat hosts a different ensemble. Together, they illustrate the musical depth and range of the European Baroque era. At certain points, they come to rest, inviting the audience to hear them up close. They can be heard from the riverbanks, the ports and locks or, in another boat, from on the river itself.

With the ensembles Arc of Iris, Los Temperamentos, Hanseatische Barockmusik, Concerto delle Donne (dir. by Julie Comparini), students of Prof. Hille Perl (Viola da gamba) at the Hochschule für Künste, music for historical brass ensemble and the "Stelzensippe" from the Kulturladen Huchting.
Concept and mise-en-scène: Peter Schenk

Saturday, September 14, 8:00 - 10:00 pm
Torfhafen Findorff, Bremen
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Locomotive Breath
Musical revue of workers' songs and work songs

Manja Stephan, Katy aus dem Spring, Julie Comparini, Evelyn Gramel, vocals
Erik Blumenthal, guitars
Matthias Entrup, drums
Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester
Directed by Peter Schenk
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Locomotive Breath
Musical revue of workers' songs and work songs

Manja Stephan, Katy aus dem Spring, Julie Comparini, Evelyn Gramel, vocals
Erik Blumenthal, guitars
Matthias Entrup, drums
Bremer Kaffeehaus-Orchester
Directed by Peter Schenk
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Come along on a musical bicycle tour that brings hidden gems of baroque music into the fresh air and pastoral landscapes of northern Bremen. Most of the mini-concerts are inside structures, so that the tour can be enjoyed by rain or shine. The journey ends with a concert in the "Wasserschloss", where drinks and refreshments will be available.

Featurung Arc of Iris, the Weckmann Consort, Vokalensemble Concerto delle Donne (dir. Julie Comparini), "Kafkas Schwester" (Diana Gaede) and Ireneusz Manuszewski (piano)
Concept and scenic direction: Peter Schenk

Sunday, September 1, starting at 3:00 pm at the Bremen-Burg train station
Online registration: MAGICAL MYSTERY TOUR
Produced and supported by BIKE IT! Bremen
More information (in German) here

Founded by the Bremer Literaturkontor and the chamber music ensemble Konsonanz, LauschOrte is an immersive public project that illustrates places of historical interest in Bremen with music and literature by local writers and artists. Seventeen different locations in the city centre offer an opportunity to hear (via QR code) readings of texts underlaid with baroque, classical and rock music, jazz or electronic beats. Each text explores the historical significance of its associated building or monument, giving listeners a multi-faceted and contemporary experience of historal locations.

All seventeen texts can be heard in the original German or an English translation, professionally recorded by German- or English-speaking actors, and can be heard on the LauschOrte website as well as on location.

Julie Comparini reads the English version of Laura Müller-Hennig's text Bücherverbrennung (Book Burning) in the central Bremen public library and translated Antonia Bontscheva's text Berliner Mauerstück (A Piece of the Berlin Wall) into English.

The ten newest LauschOrt locations, including the public library, will be introduced to the public on June 25, 2024 at 2:00 pm in the Wallforum of the central public library in Bremen.

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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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On stage: a bell that weighs two tons, a skateboard halfpipe and a waterfall. The Austrian performance artist Florentina Holzinger demolishes stage genres and visual habits. Setting out from Paul Hindemith’s one-act opera Sancta Susanna (premiered in 1922), she joins forces with an ensemble of opera singers, sex workers and body modification artists to investigate the way female identities and bodies are trimmed in religious systems and rites. The drama about a nun’s lust and sexuality is intertwined with new compositions by Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider as well as with religious works by Johann Sebastian Bach, Sergei Rachmaninoff and others. It is a musical and performative reflection on bodies and sexuality that evolves into a celebration of a mass together with the audience.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger

Halle E im Museumsquartier, Wien
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Florentina Holzinger's new work SANCTA opens with Paul Hindemith's one-act opera Sancta Susanna, in which a nun is brutally punished for expressing sexual agency. In the Holy Mass that follows, Bach, Rachmaninov, Metal, Noise and new compositions meet in a musical tour de force that explores the magic and wonder, violence and sacrifice in the Christian church and its rituals.

With music by von Paul Hindemith, Johanna Doderer, Born in Flamez and Stefan Schneider.

Florentina Holzinger & Ensemble, Performance
Cornelia Zink und Andrea Baker, soprano; Emma Rothmann, mezzo-soprano
Blathin Eckhardt, Gibrana Cervantes, otay : onii, live music
Women's choir of the Mecklenburgisches Staatstheater & guests
Mecklenburgisches Staatskapelle
Conducted by Marit Strindlund
Stage direction and choreography: Florentina Holzinger
Adult audiences only! (18+)
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Come celebrate the official release of the CD Pone spes in planctu amaro with us!

Thursday, March 14, 2024, 7:00 pm
bei Ruth Ahlers-Frick
Haus Hirschfeld
Adelenstraße 68
28239 Bremen, Germany

This is our way of saying thank you to the many people who have helped make this project possible, and an opportunity for everyone to enjoy a glass of champagne and an hors-d'oeuvre while getting to know the artists, the projects and Leonarda's wonderful music.

The CD will be available as of the beginning of March via the Bremen label arcantus, in stores near you as well as from all the usual digital download and streaming sites (and of course, at the launch party.)

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arcantus-label

Thomas Tallis (1505-1585): The Lamentations of Jeremiah I (SATTB)
Giovanni Paolo Colonna (1637-1695): Terza Letione del Venerdi for contralto and B.c.
Spirituals and lamentations from Haiti and Südafrika

Soloists
Choir of the ev. Kirchengemeinde Cloppenburg
Conducted by Matthew Glandorf

Ev. Kirchengemeinde Cloppenburg
Ritterstraße 6a, 49661 Cloppenburg
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Emanuele d'Astorga (1680?-1757): Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Magnificat RV 611

Soloists
Chor Courage Berne
Conducted by Balkis Mele

St. Aegidius-Kirche zu Berne
Am Kirchhof 4, 27804 Berne
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Emanuele d'Astorga (1680?-1757): Stabat Mater
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Magnificat RV 611

Soloists
Chor Courage Berne
Conducted by Balkis Mele

Thomaskirche Oldenburg (Kirchengemeinde Oferndiek)
Langenweg 165, 26125 Oldenburg
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Felix Mendelssohn-Batholdy: Lobgesang
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Maximilian Schmitt, tenor Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Felix Mendelssohn-Batholdy: Lobgesang
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Maximilian Schmitt, tenor Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Johannes Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Eleanor Lyons, soprano
Domen Križaj, baritone
Balthasar Neumann Choir
Orfeó Català
Balthasar Neumann Orchester
Directed by Thomas Hengelbrock
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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Arnold Schönberg, Moses und Aron
Opera in three acts (Fragment)

Moses: Dietrich Henschel
Aron: Martin Koch
Chor des Theater Bonn
Vocalconsort Berlin
Kinder- u. Jugendchor des Theater Bonn
Beethoven-Orchester Bonn

Musical Direction: Dirk Kaftan
Stage Direction: Lorenzo Fioroni
Sets: Paul Zoller
Costumes: Sabine Blickenstorfer
Video: Christian Weissenberger
Lighting: Boris Kahnert
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