Singer

The naked human body – lost to the world, but manifesting itself through the voice, in song and in the utterance of words: In search of the primordial logos, Francesca Verunelli questions the naked voice, la nuda voce. Klangforum Wien, too, represents a body: James Dillon examines this highly virtuoso and equally fragile “ensemble body” in all its ritual dynamics. Martin Smolka abandons all traces of corporeality, instead creating an image of angels in feathery-winged vehicles. It’s all about the primeval foundation of sound.

EPSG:4326

Nackte Stimme

Wiener Konzerthaus

With The Tower of Babel, Klangforum Wien, together with the Wiener Konzerthaus and with the support of AFF Projects, launched a new project in 2023 which, with two performances in Vienna and Berlin so far, explores the new in the music of the former Soviet territories in all its complexity - distinctive, different and highly advanced. As part of the third performance at the Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025, Klangforum Wien will premiere works by Anna Korsun, Koka Nikoladze and Alexander Khubeev, and complete the program with a new composition by Francesca Verunelli.

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025: The Tower of Babel III

Donauhallen Donaueschingen

Io, frammento dal Prometeo — Cantando Admont · Bürgi

Kollegienkirche

"A sound party that sounds like Beethoven on speed later on," said the "Stuttgarter Zeitung" after the premiere of Alex Paxton's "How to eat your sexuality" in February 2025. Never overly intellectual, but rather completely direct, wild and colorful, the three-part work by the successful Brit comes across, whose music the "New York Times" not without reason described as "the most cheerful sound in a long time." 

Soprano

Johanna Vargas

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 28, 2026

New Vocal Soloists / Klangforum Wien / Vimbayi Kaziboni · Elbphilharmonie

Past events

Oct 22, 2025

Nackte Stimme · Klangforum Wien

Oct 19, 2025

Donaueschinger Musiktage 2025: The Tower of Babel III · Klangforum Wien

Future and recently performed repertoire

Singer in Io, frammento dal Prometeo by Nono

Salzburger Festspiele

Singer in La nuda voce I for Ensemble by Verunelli

Klangforum Wien

Singer in La nuda voce I by Verunelli

Klangforum Wien

Singer in Rush by Smolka

Klangforum Wien

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