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Shiva Feshareki's Divine Feminine

Cutting edge music including the premiere of Shiva Feshareki's Divine Feminine, a 360掳 soundscape of 鈥渄ivine鈥� geometric spatialisation.

Kate Molleson introduces Shiva Feshareki's Divine Feminine, hot from its world premiere a couple of nights ago.
For her latest project, Shiva Feshareki has joined forces with the librettist, Karen McCarthy Woolf, choreographer Rebecca Namgauds and creative producer and singer Emma Tring to create DIVINE FEMININE, an immersive spatial opera which invokes ancient feminine deities.
As they sing and recite, the voices of the characters of the opera are transformed electronically on turntables and via a live鈥憇culpted 360掳 soundscape of 鈥渄ivine鈥� geometric spatialisation.
Drawing on the duplexities of the Goddess, ancient vocal, and folk traditions from Iran, pre-Christian Ireland, Native America, West and Central Africa, Nordic Europe, Gregorian Europe, Bulgaria, Byzantium, and Assyrian Mesopotamia, the work is a trance-led invocation of transformation and connection to nature and the cosmos.
Karen McCarthy Woolf's libretto includes ballads, Afghan women's landays and incantatory ghazal from Persia.
As she says: "...In The Divine Feminine we are using our voices to reach up and out, to an inclusive pantheon of deities from a plethora of cultures around the world, in the hope that this connection might do something to correct the patriarchal mess in which we find ourselves!"

Performed at the church of St-Martin-in-the-Fields by the upper voices of the 麻豆社 Singers, turntabalist Shiva Fesharekia with soloists Emma Tring and Mary Pearce along with Vox Next Gen and the flautist Karin de Fleyt conducted by Lucy Goddard.

Co-commissioned by 麻豆社 Radio 3.

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  • Sat 7 Mar 2026 22:30
    麻豆社 Radio 3

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