The video of the premiere performance of the oratorio "Our World is on Fire" (20.11.2021) has been travelling around the whole world - from film festival to filmfestival - and received in total more than 50 awards!

The global virtual oratorio project is now finished.

I did a restart of the project so even more singers could join the virtual choir till autumn 2022. Professionals and amateurs were welcome!

Here you can see how it was organized:
I have summarized all the necessary information and links in a multilingual PDF.
It contains the instructions in German, English, French, Itailian, Spanish and Russian. 

 

The entire oratorio is now divided into four parts. For each choir part there is a unique version and then an additional version where you can sing along with the whole choir.

This is where you can download the multilingual instructions and the vocal score:

In the final video of the global virtual oratorio performance I will mount all videos of the singers and musicians into a multiscreen video and I will create a great sounding concert mix.  

I received already the videos of the orchestra musicians and did a test mix that turned out really great. Here the first 5 minutes with just the virtual orchestra:

And here you can listen to a demo of the whole oratorio and watch an animation created by Luminous Delusion to the music.

It is meant to be screened to the music in upcoming live performances. The playback speed of the video will get adjusted in realtime to the tempo of the music by a software by Ionconcertmedia.

Our World is on Fire (Oratorio for our Future) by Rainer Bartesch on Vimeo.

We are getting some reforcement from Ghana!

The great bass-baritone Michael Mensah, who lives in Ghana, took over the bass part in the solo choir of the sing-along recording! His successful performance in the oratorio led to an educational contract with the Vienna State Opera Choir and later with the Metropolitan Opera in New York!

GREAT NEWS:

And here comes some GREAT NEWS:

the Boy Soprano part got performed by a member of the world-renowned MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR, founded and led by Ralf Ludewig!

The Boy Soprano Soloist in the virtual performance and in the live concert premiere in June 2021 was a soloist of the esteemed MÜNCHNER KNABENCHOR, who's members are performing as solo singers in opera houses and concert halls all over the world!