A world shaped by division and violence, by mysticism and constant change. A world that feels both overwhelming and strangely familiar. What if opera and song could hold up a mirror to it?

Benjamin Britten’s Les Illuminations does exactly that. At its heart, the song cycle is a portrait of society itself – the luminous and the dangerous, the sacred and the savage. It reminds us that while the world may evolve, the impulses that shape civilisation remain hauntingly unchanged.

This ritual-like, electrifying sound world finds an unexpected and thrilling counterpart in operatic choruses by Jean-Philippe Rameau. In true Voxalis style, opera and art song collide in a recital that reimagines centuries of music as part of the same conversation.

Artists
Maxwell Foster (piano), Shannon Leonard (tenor), Rebecca Goobanko (soprano), Monica Ruggiero (mezzo soprano), Elliott Beauchamp (tenor), Harrison Hammett (baritone)