Christian Zehnder, Sir John Tomlinson, Mikhail Karikis, Erika Stucky, Dessislava Stefanova, Clare Wilkinson, Jacob Heringman, Manickam Yogeswaran, Phil Minton, Lore Lixenberg, Eska Mtungwazi, Talitha Mackenzie, Barnaby Brown, Melanie Pappenheim

Christian Zehnder, Sir John Tomlinson, Mikhail Karikis, Erika Stucky, Dessislava Stefanova, Clare Wilkinson, Jacob Heringman, Manickam Yogeswaran, Phil Minton, Lore Lixenberg, Eska Mtungwazi, Talitha Mackenzie, Barnaby Brown, Melanie Pappenheim

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Voices Across The World

Voices Across the World is the Royal Opera House’s annual world music festival taking place each July. Acclaimed choral, theatre arts composer and Associate Artist of the Royal Opera House Orlando Gough curates this year’s summer celebration of tradition, diversity and innovation in vocal music from across the globe. It features artists performing a wide range of vocal styles including extreme yodellers, South Indian Carnatic music, experimental opera and Wagnerian bass-baritone John Tomlinson.

Alongside the main singing events there will be films, workshops and talks. There will also be continuous showings of Shirin Neshat’s dual-screen film Turbulent, which celebrates the power and poetics of the human voice. Created by Dominic Murcott, Extreme Karaoke offers visitors the opportunity to experiment with their own voice in an interactive aural playground. In the evening, a selection of the singers from the day will join electronic artist Andrew McDonnell in a thrilling improvised session which features looping, live sampling, duets, trios, choruses, transformations, experimentation and exhilaration.

Orlando has invited twelve of his favourite singers to perform at the Royal Opera House on one day. ‘Each of them not only has an amazing voice but an original and radical attitude to singing’. They will perform unplugged, either a capella or with minimal accompaniment in the Paul Hamlyn Hall throughout the afternoon.

Christian Zehnder

One half of the modern Swiss folk duo Stimmhorn.

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Sir John Tomlinson

English bass baritone who sings regularly with the Royal Opera and English National Opera.

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Mikhail Karikis

A composer and artists of daring originality.

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Erika Stucky

American-Swiss vocalist who breaks down the boundaries between between art, kitsch and camp and is regarded one of the most original singers on the…

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Also Appearing

Dessislava Stefanova, Clare Wilkinson, Jacob Heringman, Manickam Yogeswaran, Phil Minton, Lore Lixenberg, Eska Mtungwazi, Talitha Mackenzie, Barnaby Brown, Melanie Pappenheim

Rated Excellent

Royal Opera House

Bow Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 9DD

Disabled Booking:
0207 304 4000

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Royal Opera House

Bow Street
Covent Garden
London
WC2E 9DD

Disabled Booking:
0207 304 4000

See all events at Royal Opera House