On the 12th and 13th October 2019 ALDAorchestra are heading to the beautiful island of Møn in Denmark! We’ll be performing at the World Literature Festival where the guest of honour is Icelandic poet Gerður Kristný. We will be performing a musical work which incorporates her epic poem Drápa. We were invited to form this collaboration by Poet in the City who hosted the premiere of this work at Wilton’s Music Hall in London on 9th September.
The work tells an abstract version of the story of a Gréta Birgisdóttir who was murdered by her husband in Reykjavík in 1988. The narrater of the story here is the devil, and the story aims to tell Gréta’s story rather than that of her killer. Gerður calls the work a tribute to all women murdered by violent men.