Name: Vision: the imagined testimony of Hildegard of Bingen & her haunting chant
Start: 2025-09-20T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-09-20T20:30:00+01:00
Location: St Andrew's West Church, Glasgow

Vision: the imagined testimony of Hildegard of Bingen & her haunting chant

The music of the extraordinary medieval Abbess, Hildegard of Bingen echoes down a thousand years. Hear her testimony in this "mesmerising" (The Guardian) concertplay (where music and theatre collide) by award-winning writer Clare Norburn and directed by BAFTA-nominated director, Nicholas Renton.
Amid the darkness of the Middle Ages, Abbess Hildegard of Bingen saw the universe in a dazzling light and spoke with an insight and a genius that makes her music and poetry resound down the centuries. Vision explores Hildegard’s extraordinary life as she relives her painful and visceral visionary experiences alongside her extraordinary music, haunting and distinctive chant, performed and acted live.
"a beautiful piece … it really is wonderful, so do try and catch it." - The Guardian
“It was the overlap of, interaction between, and communication of the music of Hildegard — two voices and medieval harp — and her spoken word . . . which made the show such a unified, deep telling . . . if a moment for reflection is needed, or the desire to understand more of Hildegard is to be fulfilled, it is well worth making the time for this.” - Church Times
The performance lasts one hour with no interval.
This performance is supported by The Marchus Trust, Souter Charitable Trust, The Golsoncott Foundation, The Foyle Foundation, The Pear Tree Fund for Music and The Hugh Fraser Foundation.
Photo by Robert Piwko