Together with the composer Carlos Lopes, we wanted to pay tribute to Eurydice and focus on her transformation. In the myth, Eurydice dies “to serve” Orpheus’s story, as he attempts to rescue her. But she herself has no voice, no active role in the narrative. Does she even want to be brought back?

 

The program revolves around Carlos Lopes' work "Le Tombeau d'Eurydice", which consists of five movements, each highlighting an aspect of mourning and sorrow.

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Carlos Lopes has combined various texts - including anonymous poetry by our audience and works by Palestinian poets - by Sappho, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hala Al-Khatib, Arii Shokyu-Ni, Amina Bêlorf, Mosab Abu Toha (Pulitzer Commentary Prize 2025)—in order to give a voice as well to those who are seldom heard today.

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Carlos Lopes’s new work Le Tombeau d’Eurydice, which serves as the common thread throughout the program, is mirrored in this concert evening, supplemented with more “classical” works that will sound familiar to many. Through its diversity of languages, poets, and musical styles, it functions as a true mosaic.

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We invite you to reflect on absence and memory through questions that you can find after clicking on the envelope:

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The texts that you, the audience, share with us, will be used anonymously in one way or another, as inspiration or as a concrete material.