Friday 1 March 2019 SJE Arts

Empowered Women Trilogy: Fiona Maddocks Talk

Empowered Women Trilogy: Fiona Maddocks Talk

Blurring the boundaries of what a concert is, The Telling bring you three intimate “concert-theatre” pieces to mark International Women’s Day 2019, transporting you back in time through plaintive ballads, lively dance music and dramatic narrative. The Empowered Women Trilogy celebrates the lives of three extraordinary women who defy the strictures of their time and whose stories are both of their time but also startlingly contemporary.

Fiona Maddocks, The Observer’s classical music critic, discusses Hildegard’s life and writings in the context of crusade and schism, scientific discovery and cultural revolution.

See also:

Empowered Women Trilogy: The Vision – The Imagined Testimony of Hildegard von Bingen

Empowered Women Trilogy: Unsung Heroine – The Secret Life and Love of Troubadour Countess Beatrix De Dia

Empowered Women Trilogy: Into the Melting Pot – the Lives and Soundtrack of Christian, Jewish and Arabic Women in Medieval Spain