INVOCATION

Elsa Dreisig with the Orchestra & coro dell’opera Carlo Felice Genova.

“I have always found operatic invocations to be moments of pure magic, both for listeners as well as for us singers.

Such invocations bring together two dimensions: a world of intimacy and vulnerability, which gives rise to a palette of unique vocal colours, and the act of appealing to a person or some supernatural power, which imbues the scene with a distinctive dramatic intensity.

It is this blend of the intimate and the dramatic that I find so affecting.

Invocations are never inconsequential; rather, they are concentrated, profound and sometimes mysterious.They are moments of pure presence, with nothing to prove, where the character takes stock and you can hear their soul in song.”