Artist description The Flemish composer, writer and philosopher Johan Sanctorum invited three gifted young singers to make a selection out of two "works -in-progress": the "Cesare Borgia"-opera and his Requiem (which is a grotesque fantasy about the mediaval Reynard-the-Fox-tale). The result is a fascinating little song cycle for female voices, introducing us in the strange universe of love, ecstasy, madness and death. The combination of these "romantic" topics -elaborated in a neoromantic, postmodern style, tempered and enlightened by a particular sense of humour and "parodical" instinct- with the newest synthesizer technology and the composer's experimental research in developping digital piano sounds, constitutes the expressive richness of his lyrical-dramatical idiom. Two instrumental pieces, "The Ecstasy of Theresa" and the "Tarantella" form the epilogue of this walk in a landscape of extreme emotionality and female libido.

Music Style Contemporary/classical live vocals, with digitally sampled piano sound

Artist History De temperamentvolle mezzo-sopraan Nathalie Van de Voorde genoot haar zang-opleiding aan het Conservatorium van Gent. Van meetaf aan koos zij voor het lyrische genre en het opera-vak, en onderscheidde zich reeds in verschillende internationale producties van modern-dramatisch werk (o.m. het vrouwen-ensemble in "Orpheo" van W. Huss, opgevoerd in Parijs, Wenen, Lissabon en Berlijn). Met de concertvereniging "Lyrica" geeft ze tal van operarecitals, waaronder ook de befaamde Nieuwjaarsconcerten in Gent. Sinds 1996 is zij vast verbonden aan de Kon. Muntschouwburg te Brussel en werd geselecteerd als koorlid voor de Bayreuther Festspiele. Haar solorepertoire omvat o.m. Czipra ("Der Zigeunerbaron"/J. Strauss), de Heks ("Hänsel und Gretel"/E. Humperdinck) en Charlotte ("Werther"/J. Massenet).

Group Members Marielle Creemers (soprano), Annelies Meskens (soprano), Nathalie Van de Voorde (mezzo)

Instruments Live vocals with digitally sampled piano sounds and MIDI-effects

Albums Johan Sanctorum: 'Maupertuis', songs about love, ecstasy, madness, death (Label: SantaLucia)

Additional Info Order CD at SantaLucia_be@yahoo.com

Location Brussels - Belgium

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