WORLD PASSION a newly-composed Baroque World-Music Oratorio, the Passion of a climate-changed planet

Name: WORLD PASSION a newly-composed Baroque World-Music Oratorio, the Passion of a climate-changed planet
Start: 2025-09-27T19:00:00+03:00
End: 2025-09-27T21:00:00+03:00
Location: Niguliste muuseum

Schedule

Sat Sep 27 2025 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC+03:00

Location

Niguliste muuseum | Tallinn, HA

EEBO & Utopia present a new-composed Baroque Oratorio: the WORLD story from Creation to Apocalypse; the PASSION story from the Garden of Eden to Gethsemane & Golgatha.
From Genesis to Revelations. Noah's flood and Temptation in the desert,. Baltic epic, Greek myth, Indian rites, Chinese philosophy, African ritual, South American legend.
Andrew Lawrence-King's latest work explores ancient World music voices: Estonian, French, Spanish, Italian, German; also African, Greek, Indian, South American, Celtic etc.
In the beginning was the WORD. An ANGEL and LUCIFER (a scientist) bring competing messages: what is Truth? HUMANs deny three times. GAIA is the spirit of the Earth, also the scientific concept of a self-regulating planet under stress.
After joyous celebration of Nature, thrilling Storms and dramatic Trials, the Apocalypse sets Niguliste's famous Dance of Death to the jig-rhythm of a wild Irish Planxty.
In the enigmatic Epilogue, a South American shepherd shelters in the high caves, warned by the sacred llamas. Who is the childhood companion who remains with him?
Star tenor Ian Honeyman (UK) creates the role of LUCIFER "His mouth is full of deceit and fraud".
Utopia's Valter Maasalo sings the WORD "And I saw that it was good!".