After singing in six projects for Pinchgut Opera in 2022 (The Spiritual Forest, Consecration, Acis & Galatea, Orontea, Monteverdi Vespers & Medee) including appearances at the Adelaide Festival and Four Winds Festival - I am delighted to be singing in two major projects for their 2023 Season, the first being Buxtehude’s extraordinary Membra Jesu Nostri.

From the Pinchgut Opera Website

A cycle of seven cantatas composed by German composer Dieterich Buxtehude in 1680, each cantata is a Passion meditation, contemplating the different parts of Christ’s body on the cross. The music is loving: pure, balanced and deeply expressive, demonstrating an extraordinary attention to unity of conception.

Pinchgut’s presentation of this astonishing work brings together a stellar chorus of soloists, including Alexandra Oomens and Lauren Lodge- Campbell, who both return to Australia after performances throughout Europe with some of the world’s eminent Baroque ensembles, along with the sublime sounds of Andrew O’Connor, Hannah Fraser and Louis Hurley. Joining them will be a specially selected group of eight expert players of the Orchestra of the Antipodes, led by Erin Helyard.

This is sacred, meditative music of the highest order and beauty, presented with all the intimacy, emotion and power that inspired its creation over 300 years ago.

PROGRAM

Membra Jesu Nostri (1682) by Dieterich Buxtehude

CITY RECITAL HALL, SYDNEY
Sat 1 Apr 2pm | Sun 2 Apr 5pm

MELBOURNE RECITAL CENTRE
Tue 4 Apr 7pm | Wed 5 Apr 7pm

Sung in Latin with English surtitles

Running time 70 minutes, no interval
Tickets $62 - 169
Under 35s $35