Kammer-Spiele. Parole

In 2025, the Neue Vocalsolisten are celebrating a special anniversary with the Kammer-Spiele series. The singers will present milestones from this repertoire in six concerts between now and the end of the year. On this evening, they will explore the parlando technique in all its facets.

18:30 in P1: Introduction with Elena Rykova and ensemble members
19:30 in T3: Concert
21:30 in P1: After show with snacks and drinks

PAROLE

Mischa Käser: from Prelude Book I
for six voices (2004/05)

Nadir Vassena: infidi luoghi dell'anima opera fragment
for countertenor and four voices in half-shadow (2006)

Elena Rykova: on the shore of shattered time
for three voices (2021)

Anna Sowa: New work
for voices (2025). World premiere

Oscar Bianchi: Ante Litteram
for six voices (2012/13)

Elena Rykova: a hollow heart full of holes
for five voices and electronics (2024/25)

New vocal soloists

Many composers who have written for the Neue Vocalsolisten come not only from Italy or the Mediterranean region, but also from Switzerland. This evening is dedicated to them. Mischa Käser opens it with a musical parlando from which bizarre nonsense dramatizations develop. Nadir Vassena (Shakespeare's Othello), Elena Rykova (Yoko Ogawa's Island of Lost Memory) and Oscar Bianchi's fast-paced narrative, in which he uses Foster-Wallace's Infinite Jest, among other things, to find out the reasons "that prevent humanity from recognizing itself and finding its way to consciousness", deal with real dramas from world literature.