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Last night Simone Kermes at the robert schumann hall was simply enthralling.
She bounds onto the stage in platform shoes with energy and eagerness and even a little fear; just how will her audience will receive her?
The performance is arresting and her voice, well her voice touches you in a way that has something to do with raw emotion and awe-inspiring respect.
Her audience, desperate to show their appreciation are, at the same time, clinging onto the moment she has created. They are hesitant to break that spell with their applause. But then, once one dares to clap, the adoration is never-ending.
Clearly delighted at the standing ovation she and her musicians, the wonderful Le Musiche Nove, received at the end of the performance, I sensed something resembling 'relief' in her beaming eyes and her smile. The soprano wishes to touch her audience, she hopes that they will laugh and cry and indeed they do. I felt that she would have been very unhappy if she had not reached her audience in this way.
We are very fortunate in that Ms Kermes will be in Düsseldorf again on 4 June 2011 as part of the robert schumann hall series 440HZ when she will play with the young award-winning conductor Alexander Shelley and the Schumann Camerata Orchesta. The details of this programme are still not 100% known but we have been told that she will be touching on baroque arias in a 'disco version' and songs of the 1920's. Whatever the final programme, you can be certain of an amazing event of crossover sounds that will make for an exceptional evening's music.
If you'd like to see her before then, she at the Dortmund Konzerthaus on January 23 2011.
