Michael Hersch: Medea

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Label
New Focus Recordings
Release Date
November 21, 2025
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Michael Hersch
    • PERFORMER
      Sarah Maria Sun, Schola Heidelberg, Ensemble Musikfabrik
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 21, 2025
    • UPC
      613527318710
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      FCR465
    • LABEL
      New Focus Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Contemporary Era
    Works ⌄

    1. Look at me. I am strange, foreign …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Schola Heidelberg, Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

      Conductor: Bas Wiegers

    2. The bile buried in your bowels, the smoldering coal of spite …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Schola Heidelberg, Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

      Conductor: Bas Wiegers

    3. If I could exhume my murdered children, I would …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Schola Heidelberg, Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

      Conductor: Bas Wiegers

    4. Whose arms, cradling pounding hearts …

      Composer: Michael Hersch

      Ensemble: Schola Heidelberg, Ensemble Musikfabrik

      Performer: Sarah Maria Sun

      Conductor: Bas Wiegers


Composer Michael Hersch adapts the tragedy of Medea from Ovid's�Metamorphoses�in his new opera for soprano Sarah Maria Sun, the vocal ensemble Schola Heidelberg, and Ensemble Musikfabrik. With librettist Stephanie Fleischmann. Hersch's setting underscores the profound psychological trauma at the heart of the tale with a characteristically powerful, bracing score.