MDR-Musiksommer: Starke Frauen

In the organizer's words:

Corinna Harfouch - Narrator
Hideyo Harada - piano

Word-music collage with excerpts from Virgina Woolf (1882-1941) "A Room to Herself", among others
Eva Rieger (ed.) "Ethel Smyth: A Stormy Winter. Memoirs of a controversial English composer"
Ethel Smyth (1858-1944) Musical excerpts from various works

Corinna Harfouch, one of the most distinguished German actresses of our time, and Hideyo Harada, the pianist with a "feel for states of mind" (Süddeutsche Zeitung), have come together for an extraordinary project. "Amazing victories of women on battlefields" is the title of the word-music collage, which ingeniously fuses texts by Virginia Woolf and works by Ethel Smyth, the most important British composer at the turn of the 20th century. An evening that tells of the struggles of strong women for their place in society and at the same time gives Dame Ethel Smyth's wonderful musical language the place it deserves.