| Duration | 75 min |
| Part of | Sideways |
What does sacrifice mean to you?
In religious traditions, passion narratives are about suffering, sacrifice, and transformation, usually centered around one hero or savior. But in this first staged oratorio at Korzo, Passio is a contemporary concert where the passion story takes a different turn: that of polyphony. We meet survivors, pioneers, and creators who reveal an often unheard story of resilience and transformation, where various classical singing techniques, fortepiano, jazz, blues, South Asian percussion, and baroque strings merge with each other, time, and space.
With the direction of soprano and creator Maribeth Diggle and compositions by Lucie de Saint Vincent and the ensemble, Passio becomes a collective act with voices based on interviews with the musicians of the ensemble themselves. One that makes the passion stories we share with each other visibly more complete. And Bach would surely have loved that.
This French pianist, composer, and founder of Collectif Trytone has a diverse musical background spanning multiple genres with a speficif focus on female narratives in works such as Ascensions, Geen Vaarwel and Alles in mij. She won the Diapason d’Or for her solo album dedicated to female composers, Des dentelles à l’Echafaud. Lucie has performed at Présences Féminines (FR), Festival Oude Muziek (NL), Abbaye de Royaumont (FR), and the Nuoro Jazz Festival (IT). She specialises in fortepiano and early music, as well as piano and composition. She is a resident of the Camargo Foundation with her album Back to Bach, where she works with Fabrizio Cassol, Magic Malik, Joëlle Léandre, Ashram Sharif Khan, and Joce Mienniel.
This American soprano and director has worked in opera for more than twenty years, dedicating herself to bringing new stories for women to life, both onstage and off. She also tours as a soloist with Alain Platel, choreographer of les ballets C de la B, under the musical direction of Fabrizio Cassol, performing pieces such as VSPRS, Pitié! (ARTE TV), and Requiem pour L. Maribeth directed and created SOLA SOLETTA for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (2022), exploring gender roles within the classical music canon, and also directed Love Songs (2020) and Las Místicas de México (2024) for IN Series in Washington DC and Let Me Be Frank for Arena Stage. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Breath Art at the RITCS School of Arts in Brussels.
Maribeth Diggle: Director, soprano
Lucie de Saint Vincent: Musical direction
Rajna Swaminathan: Indian percussion
Alejandra Borzyk: Saxophone
Tina Chancey: Viola da gamba
Laïla Amezian: Jazz and Moroccan vocals
Joyce Scott: Blues vocals
Timothy Nelson: Artistic advisor
Gaia Saitta: Dramaturgy