Francesco Cavalli’s early baroque opera La Doriclea, re-imagined and re-discovered through a queer lens. Collaboration with Ensemble Nylandia and Fractal Arts Collective. Baroque/contemporary opera production. Concept, research and main role.
photo: Tero Ahonen
Encounters with seas and oceans through Nordic and Afrodiaspora myth, connections, and ancestral healing. Concert program for voice, piano and harp (2 performers).
photo/collage: Isabella Shaw
A staged concert telling the unknown story of Merlin from the earliest Latin and Welsh sources. Ecological reverberations and myth. For 3 performers and narrator. Created thanks to support of the CIMM and Abbaye de Fontfroide. Concept, research, dramaturgy, composition/arrangement co-production with Ensemble Emrys.
Monologue opera (based on the life and work of 19th century mathematician and proto-computer scientist Ada Lovelace. Music by Uljas Pulkkis, Libretto by Isabella Shaw. For mezzo, piano and electronics. Premiere 2024 G-Live Lab Helsinki.
How will you carry this?
Mixed-media performance (premiered at Kultturikeskus Caisa 2024) on myths, belonging, and immigration. For three performers and light/sound technicians. Writing, dramaturgy, and music co-production.
photo: Darina Rodionova
The Kindly Ones
Baroque concert for 2-3 performers focusing on the Furies/Erinyes in early Italian repertoire as arbiters of retribution and revenge against violence against women. Premiere 2024 BRQ Vantaa festival.
{the forest is a portal}
Coming soon.
Citadel
Concert for 4 performers (voice, piano, flute, cello) on themes of exoticism, own voices, and security. Music by African-American and European composers. Tour 2025 spring.
Ghosts and Phantasms
Meditative concert of baroque music: on grief, renewal and transformation. For 4-5 performers. Premiere autumn 2025.
Nightsongs
Aetheric Harmonies
Rootsong; Earthblood
Storm Ritual
Sunrise / The Telling Bones
[towards you I have lived]
Past
Love Letters
In Dreams
Nachtlied
Proserpina
Lucifer’s Fall
Mirail de Prez / Lingua Materna
Carolus et Wenceslaus
Viadeira
The White Deer
Il miglior Fabbro
Morte i begli occhi