MA Festival: Postscript & Elisabeth Hetherington

The ensemble Postscript and soprano Elisabeth Hetherington explore together the voice of the rejected woman through the centuries. Inspired by Anne Sextons's famous poem Her Kind they bring music by Handel, Purcell, Strozzi, Saariaho and Fadael, interwoven with electro-acoustic intermezzos by Tatiana Rosa. Baroque portraits of Alcina, Armide and Medea mirror modern insights into madness, psychological fractures and femininity. Hetherington and Postscript thus create a penetrating, dramatic journey through centuries of female experiences. With music by Georg Friedrich Händel (1685 – 1759), Henry Purcell (1659 – 1695), Barbara Strozzi (1619 – 1677), Kaija Saariaho (1952 – 2023) and Karmit Fadael (°1996)