Note: These performances are recommended for mature audiences, due to the subject matter of the film.
Note: The public is recommended to arrive early, since non-reserved seating is limited.
Read the review of this event in the New York Times.
One of the most successful large scale works of multimedia in recent years, Voices of Light merges Carl Theodor Dreyer's legendary silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc (sometimes called the best film ever made) with the live performance of a musical work written for the film by composer Richard Einhorn.
It's been hailed as "a triumph" (Los Angeles Times) and "an overwhelming experience" (Chicago Tribune).
Joining Sospeso for the performance are Grammy award-winning soprano Susan Narucki and the acclaimed medieval vocal ensemble Anonymous 4.
Tim Page, in the Washington Post, wrote that "Dreyer and Einhorn together create a harrowing and exalting symbiosis that, once encountered, cannot soon be forgotten . . . [Einhorn's oratorio is] a substantial and valuable work, combining elements of Renaissance music with the slow, spare, mostly consonant, deeply felt and prayerful strain of contemporary composition that has come to be known as 'holy minimalism' ... Subtle, brilliantly effective."
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