Toxic Psalms
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Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Rudi Uran Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Rudi Uran Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Rudi Uran Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Rudi Uran Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Rudi Uran Photo: Rudi Uran
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek Photo: Dorian Šilec Petek
Photo: Rudi Uran
Press
… the grandiosity of the staging rivals what one might see at the Met … an overwhelming aural and visual experience … Šilec presents her arcana with a heavy dose of beauty and wonder …
Theatre Mania
… vibrantly theatrical, genre-blurring, unusual in its techniques, eclectic in its musical style and politically charged … one hopes CS will become a regular visitor to New York …
The New York Times
… with its high-contrastdetails, Toxic Psalms at times resembled a more budget-conscious Robert Wilson production ... the mighty but graceful Slovenian women’s choir …
New York Music Daily
… breathtaking and equally relevant multimedia suite … A Sonically Thrilling, Disquieting Premiere For Karmina Silec’s Toxic Psalms …
New York Music Daily
... Silec is savvy about maintaining dramatic momentum, and the performers execute ecery shift in tone with subtlety and agility ...
The New York Times
… striking new work by the rabidly talented Carmina Slovenica …The ensemble and its director, Karmina Silec, have created haunting images …
The New York Times
… the musical answer to Bausch's groundbreaking concept of Tantztheater …
Opera World
… talent and virtuosity is astounding … the languages, time periods, and cultures blurred into visceral emotion and reaction ...
San Francisco Classical Voice
… polished theatricality to the mix as well as an ambiguity all too rare in American performance … all add up to an evening that’s bracing yet, perversely enough, enchanting …
The New York Times
... jaw-droppingly gorgeous singing … strikingly staged by Karmina Silec …
New York Observer
… a theater which aims for perfection in any discipline ... audience can not do much more than almost breathless look and marvel at so much quality…
Opera Magazine
… haunting theatrical moments …
Wall Street Journal
… innovative theater company Carmina Slovenica … intellectually challenging Toxic Psalms…
France Press
… all of the material is conveyed with commitment and precision from this highly skilled vocal ensemble ...
Theatre Mania Review
… a visceral slide into darkness …
The New York Times
… Šilec’s direction toyed with crowd dynamics on both the conformist and nonconformist sides with a coldly sardonic humor that offered momentary respite from the lingering bleakness of the music …
New York Music Daily