Cobalt Garden – A choreographed concert | zamus: early music festival 2026

Magdalena Öttl, Manon Parent, Polina Sonis – Dance

Natasha Goldberg (soprano), Marina Schuchert (soprano), Katharina Georg (alto), Leonhard Reso (tenor), Fabian Hemmelmann (baritone), Christian Walter (bass) – Choir

Stephanie Thiersch – Concept, Direction, Choreography

Sören Leupold – Theorbo

Manon Parent – Choreographic Assistant

Lauren Steel – Costumes

Jasper Diekamp – Set, Lighting

With “Cobalt Garden”, Stephanie Thiersch creates a haunting performance for three dancers and the six singers of the Cologne Vocal Soloists: works by the Italian composer Barbara Strozzi meet the mystical Iroha chant of the Cologne-based Japanese composer Malika Kishino. The Cologne Vocal Soloists, MOUVOIR, Sören Leupold (theorbo), Jasper Diekamp (lighting) and Lauren Steel (costumes) collaborate with Stephanie Thiersch to create a multi-layered resonant space in which bodies, voices and sounds interpenetrate. They become a fragile vision of a utopian landscape.

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Music by Johann Hermann Schein, Claudio Monteverdi, Carlo Gesualdo, Thomas Tallis, Francesca Caccini, Barbara Strozzi and others, as well as a commission from zamus to Malika Kishino, made possible by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation.

A co-production by zamus: centre for early music and MOUVOIR e. V.

Concert introduction at 7.10 pm, followed by an after-party

Single ticket: €22/€14

Plus booking fees

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