Chamber theatre 1

Stefan Pohlit: Am Rhein

for six voices ^WP

Tomoko Fukui: Die Dinge

for seven voices ^WP

Uwe Rasch: versprecher

for countertenor

Fernando Manassero: The slow cancellation of the future

for six voices and electronics ^WP

Neue Vocalsolisten

Johanna Vargas, soprano

Susanne Leitz-Lorey, soprano

Truike van der Poel, mezzo-soprano

Frauke Elsen, mezzo-soprano

Martin Nagy, tenor

Guillermo Anzorena, baritone

Andreas Fischer, bass

Daniel Gloger, countertenor

In 2025, the Neue Vocalsolisten are celebrating a special anniversary: 25 years as a chamber music formation and thus 25 years of a new genre that they have enlivened and significantly shaped: Vocal Chamber Music Theatre. Since then, many hundreds of works have been ‘written for them’. Over the coming months, the Neue Vocalsolisten will be rediscovering milestones from this repertoire in the Kammer-Spiele series. As part of ECLAT, however, they will open the series with six new works–very personal narratives that give the ‘I’ space and attention in the context of a charged environment.

Stefan Pohlit makes the subtle tension between localisation and alienation tangible on a journey to the traditions of his family in a fishing village on the Rhine.

Tomoko Fukui deals with the coexistence of different deities in Japanese culture, with the ‘eight million gods’ that are inherent in all things and the monsters that can arise from them. In a dystopian parody, Argentinian composer Fernando Manassero describes ‘the world we have all been afraid of. But it is also the world we wanted.’