"Befreiung" - a European oratory for peace

2025 marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. To mark the occasion, composer Marc Sinan, together with many other artists from six countries, is developing a multi-perspective European peace oratorio, which will be brought together in Berlin to form a musical project of remembrance and the future.

BEFREIUNG takes its starting point in the polyphony of carefully researched testimonies of people who, representing millions of untold fates, remember the end of the war and their respective “liberation”.

Musicians from Spoldzielnia muzyczna contemporary ensemble (Poland), Ensemble C Barré (France), Ensemble degli Intrigati (Italy), Ensemble Metamorphosis Belgrade (Serbia) unite with Ensemble Reflektor and the Marc Sinan Company to form a project orchestra under the musical direction of Andrea Molino, which, together with the Neue Vocalsolisten and Berlin choirs, aims to send a radiant musical signal for a peaceful future in remembrance of the past.

Soloists

Neue Vocalsolisten

Susanne Leitz-Lorey

Johanna Vargas

Truike van der Poel

Guillermo Anzorena

Andreas Fischer

Martin Nagy

Speaker

Susanne Wolf

Ensembles

Ensemble Reflektor

Augsburger Philharmoniker

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Spoldzielnia muzyczna contemporary ensemble (Poland)

Ensemble C Barré (France)

Ensemble degli Intrigati (Italy)

Ensemble Metamorphosis Belgrad (Serbia)

Marc Sinan Company (Berlin)

Marc Sinan – Composition / Artistic Direction

Andrea Molino – Musical Direction

Johanna Diehl, Raphael Sbrzesny –  visual concept

Miriam Baute – stage, installation

Volker Greve, Andi Teichmann –  sound direction, sound

Marc Sinan with the support of Khitam Hussein, Mareike Lehne, Holger Kuhla – libretto / Dramaturgy

Dr. Veronika Zablotsky – scientific advice

In cooperation with the Corale Poliziana, the Coro Giovanile della Valdichiana and of the Fondazione Cantiere Internazionale d'Arte di Montepulciano.

Supported by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.