The 2013/14 season of Basel's Gare du Nord
Basel's Gare du Nord for New Music opens its 2013/14 season on October 16 with the staged premiere of the chamber opera "Hypermusic Prologue" by Hèctor Parra and Lisa Randall. The Gare des Enfants celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Inspired by the bestseller "Warped Passages" by physicist Lisa Randall, Spanish composer Hèctor Parra created "a chamber opera about hidden universes, the existential urge to explore, the limits of understanding and our dependencies in the real world". Randall wrote the libretto herself.
The newly founded Eunoia Ensemble is the Gare du Nord Ensemble of the 2013/14 season, presenting a series of commissions in which each concert is programmatically dedicated to a vocal.
With "From Time to Time", the Gare du Nord is also presenting a cycle of 16 concerts ranging from medieval motets to contemporary electronic music. Works from the Middle Ages, the Renaissance and the Baroque are juxtaposed with contemporary compositions and brought together.
The Gare du Nord pays homage to the "cradle of humanism", the cultural region on the Upper Rhine, with a mixture of concerts, readings and talks. The focus is on the humanists Erasmus of Rotterdam, Johannes Reuchlin and Beatus Rhenanus.
The Gare des Enfants has been organizing "concerts and spectacles for curious ears from the age of 5" at the Gare du Nord since 2004. In its anniversary season, the city of Basel will be the main theme of its events.
More info: www.garedunord.ch
