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Based on texts by Hans Christian Andersen and Helmut Oehring as well as from Friedrich Schiller's 'Die Jungfrau von Orleans', Monteverdi and Rinuccini's 'Lamento d'Arianna', Thomas More's 'Utopia', Johann Sebastian Bach's BWV 21 and Psalm 69 (G)

"Helmut Oehring has been, and remains, a phenomenon... And the way singing, spoken word and sign language - an essential musical element for the son of deaf and dumb parents, though slightly exotic for a hearing audience - are interlinked becomes increasingly clear and comprehensible, gradually losing the odour of being extraordinary.

Apart from the growing clarity of gestures, the dramaturgical structure of the libretto becomes clearer as well. Although texts from different sources are also collated here, Andersen’s fairy-tale of the Little Mermaid is recognizable as the central theme. The unbroken spirit of playfulness of the electronically refined score is a musical surprise, although Oehring largely employs the usual stylistic devices of recent years. In this work, however, he achieves a density of expression and, on the other hand, creates sounds of such a sublime sense of forlornness that his gift for musical theatre is shown in an even more concentrated way than in his last work, Effi Briest. The subtle, sophisticated sounds he conjures up from Monteverdi’s Intermezzi are phenomenal..." (Pedro Obiera, Aachener Nachrichten, 28.04.2002)