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Utzon Music 2025 Sjaella

13 July 2025

In the Utzon Room

Classical Music

Sublime singing from German acapella ensemble Sjaella, in an ethereal program celebrating their Utzon Room debut: Purcell, Janequin, European folk song arrangements, and a gentle new work by Alice Chance. 

Beautifully blended voices held the audience spellbound.

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Heavenly voices, radiant music

It’s hard not to contemplate the celestial when you hear German ensemble Sjaella sing together, unaccompanied.  With logic-defying interconnectedness, every breath, note and musical gesture appears to come from one mind.  This is an out-of-the-ordinary chance to experience these wondrous musicians in an intimate space — rather than their usual sold-out halls and cathedrals around the world — performing Henry Purcell, Clement Janequin, Caroline Shaw, arrangements of Norwegian, Irish, Icelandic, German, and Finnish traditional songs, and a work by young Sydney composer Alice Chance, learnt especially for Utzon.  In their own words, 'Sjaella is the soul of the women who appear together on stage and have not lost a child-like experience of the world'.

Presented by Sydney Opera House

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Artist Information

Viola Blanche
soprano

Marie Fenske
soprano

Franziska Eberhardt
soprano

Marie Charlotte Seidel
mezzo soprano

Luisa Klose
alto

Helene Erben
alto

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