Schönberg series. OPUS MIRUM: Kai Kallastu (soprano), Andrus Kallastu (electronics)

Schönberg series. OPUS MIRUM, 19.11.2026, 19:00, Estonian Contemporary Music Centre (Pühavaimu 9, Tallinn).

Programme: Sohrab Uduman (b. 1962), Cassandra for voice and tape (1992); Hans-Gunter Lock (b. 1974), Cassandra echo for tape (2010); Sven Sosnitski (b. 1987), Song of a distant land for soprano and electronics (2015, text by Lord Byron).

OPUS MIRUM is a project launched by soprano Kai Kallastu in 2010, drawing on electronic works, which create a large space filled with sound, in which the human voice meets noise at its microscopic edges. The concert explores apocalyptic visions of the future: human loneliness, alienation and the fading of the world. The myth of Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam loved by Apollo, who becomes a war trophy and a prophet of doom nobody believes, runs through the programme. Lock's Cassandra echo was written in 2010 for Pärnu Opera's summer event and was performed as interlude music alongside Jürg Wüttenbach's piece "Encore!".