Paradise re-load – Die Geschichte von Luzifers Sturz | zamus: early music festival 2026

In the organizer's words:

Collective of Unfinished Creation
Charlotte Nachtsheim - soprano
Cyril Escoffier - tenor
Darina Ablogina - Renaissance traverso, artistic direction
Sébastien Mitra - organ & harpsichord
Louis Keller - Samples
Christina C. Messner - Audio-Visual Installation

The Collective of Unfinished Creation from Switzerland will begin the opening evening in the Trinitatis Church with singing and an audio-visual installation. Inspired by John Milton's "Paradise Lost", but also by the lesser-known libretto "The State of Innocence and the Fall of Man", the ensemble presents a program that combines music by Dowland, Strozzi and Caccini, among others, with contemporary sound installations by Christina C. Messner. The focus is on the idea of the transformation of human conditions, represented among other things by Lucifer's fall from heaven.

Music of the 16th and 17th centuries from England and Italy by John Bull, John Banister, John Dowland, Henry Purcell, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi, Thomas Weelkes, Giovanni Bassano and others, as well as audiovisual installations by Christina C. Messner.

Concert introduction 18:40

One-way ticket: 22/14 €
Combined ticket: 29/19 € with Lamentations from Exile
Each plus VVK fees

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