MEDEA
a new opera
music by Michael Hersch
text by Stephanie Fleischmann
translated by Uljana Wolf
commissioned by Ensemble MusikFabrik & Kunststiftung NRW
premiere: June 3, 2023
with soprano Sarah Maria Sun
& Schola Heidelberg
Cologne, Germany
original program booklet in German with libretto in English
An Attempt to Not Look Away
program note by Egbert Hiller
duration: 55 minutes
sopran + 6-part vocal ensemble
orchestra: 16
“Look at me.
I am strange, foreign.
You do not know me.
The hole in the sky
that follows me
wherever I fly.
The heaving ground beneath my feet
laced with the dust,
the skin and bone,
of generations. ”