by Henrik Eger

Philadelphia is in for a musical treat: HILDEGARD VON BINGEN: BAMBINA MISTICA (the mystical child), an Italian cantata, with music by Italian composer Mariano Garau and Hildegard von Bingen; a libretto by Philadelphia's Karen Lauria Saillant, director of International Opera Theater, based on original writings of Hildegard; and presented by ten Philadelphia sopranos, accompanied by a harp (Mary Tresvalles). The American premiere takes place November 8, 2015, at 3 pm at Our Lady of Angels Chapel at the convent of The Sisters of Saint Francis of Assisi in Philadelphia, in Aston, PA. Admission is free; contact (610) 459-4125..

The cantata presents the sensitivity and courage of a young girl named Hildegard, 10th child of a wealthy medieval family, born in 1098, who would grow up to become a world famous Benedictine abbess at Bingen, writer, composer, painter, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, creator of her own language, and a polymath who is considered to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.

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Source: http://phindie.com/