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Fire in my mouth

Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest

Julia Wolfe’s moving oratorio: 146 voices for 146 lost lives.

A fire broke out in the garment workshop and the seamstresses had nowhere to go; 146 young women, most of them immigrants, perished in the inferno. What was a news item in the New York newspapers in 1911 was transformed by Julia Wolfe in 2018 into a multimedia oratorio featuring a huge youth choir. A piece that strikes right at the heart: chilling, moving and terribly topical.

programme

Stravinsky Elegie for solo viola | Wolfe Fire in my mouth (Nederlandse première)

credits

Brad Lubman conductor | Roman Spitzer viola | Nationale Koren choir | Anne Kauffman director | Jeff Sugg production-design | Márion Talán costume designer | Kenny Savelson executive producer | Asher Lloyd Ehrenberg  re-staging director | produced by Bang on a Can

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