Actor and award-winning audiobook narrator Ellen Hillingsø brings Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Nightingale to life in an evening of poetry, melancholy and enchantment. Her distinctive voice carries the story back to ancient China.
Musician Poul Høxbro frames the tale with classical and traditional Chinese music, playing the xun, an ancient Chinese flute, alongside gongs, cymbals and bells. The performance opens with a poetic introduction built from European nightingale sounds and texts by St. St. Blicher and A. E. Brehm.
Hillingsø is also known as a host at the Mofibo Awards, and she is coming up in a conversation evening with Ann Lind at The Ballroom Aarhus on 17 November and at Kaffé Fair on 18 November.
