Una Santa Oscura

A fascinating multi disciplinary and multi sensory collaboration takes place at Project from Thur 4 to Sat 6 March in the shape of Una Santa Oscura, a piece of music-theatre composed by Ian Wilson, directed by Tom Creed and performed by violinist Ioana Petcu-Colan. Inspired by the life of Hildegard von Bingen, the celebrated composer, abbess and mystic who was born in Germany in 1098 and lived to the ripe old age of 81, this evocative combination of sound and visuals echoes the structure of a cloistered day and draws on elements of Hildegard’s biography as well as her graphic and well-documented visions. Described as an opera without singers, Wilson’s music fuses live performance with electronically manipulated recordings, and is based on Hildegard’s Ave Maria, O auctrix vite. while Creed’s staging is inspired by Oliver Sacks’ book Migraine, in which he suggests that her visions and symptoms were from a source other than spiritual. Wilson, Creed and Petcu-Colan take part in a post show discussion on Fri. www.projectartscentre.ie