Choirs of the International Study Center
Opera - Opera
The Capella Carolina GSG9 vocal ensemble will present choruses from famous operas on Friday, 13 June 2025 at 8 pm in the auditorium of the Old University, Universitätsplatz. The programme includes popular catchy tunes as well as less well-known, but no less worth listening to: the ‘Prisoners’ Chorus‘ from Verdi's “Nabucco”, the “Pilgrims” Chorus’ from Wagner's ‘Tannhäuser’, the wedding chorus from Dvořák's ‘Rusalka’, choruses from Mozart operas and more.
Admission is free, donations are welcome. Click here for the dedicated project page.
300 years of choral music with 2 choirs
The chamber choir ‘Camerata Carolina’ has often performed together with choir friends. This time, in collaboration with the choir of Leibniz Universität Hannover, it presents choral music spanning 300 years. Works, including double choir pieces, by Bach, Bruckner, Brahms and Rheinberger are on the programme.
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Capella Carolina begins rehearsals
This summer, the Capella Carolina Grand Choir will bring Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen to the stage – a magical fusion of choral music and theater, inspired by Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. “Are you sure that we are awake? It seems to me that yet we sleep, we dream,” says one of Shakespeare’s characters – and this enchanting interplay between reality and fantasy will come to life in our performance. To further spark the imagination, a troupe of actors will accompany the production with pantomime sequences!
Rehearsals for this extraordinary project will begin on April 3, 2025, and will take place on Thursdays from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Large Lecture Hall of the Chemistry Department (Großer Hörsaal der Chemie), Im Neuenheimer Feld 252.
New singers are warmly welcome! Those interested can join a group audition during the first weeks of the semester, taking place 45 minutes before the regular rehearsal (7:15 p.m.). An individual audition is not required. We look forward to seeing you!
Camerata Carolina begins rehearsals
The Camerata Carolina chamber choir is rehearsing the programme ‘Bach. Brahms. Bruckner: The Great Motets’ for the concerts on 31st of May in Heidelberg, on 5th of July in Hanover - in collaboration with the choir of Leibniz University Hannover -, on 19th July in the Sankt Blasien Cathedral as well as on 20th of July 2025 in the Saint Pierre et Paul Cathedral, Rosheim/Alsace (FR).
Rehearsals for this challenging and fascinating programme will begin on Tuesday, 18 February 2025 on Tuesdays from 8 pm to 10 pm at Max-Weber-Haus, Ziegelhäuser Landstr. 17.
For an audition, please make an appointment with the conductor by e-mail.
Camerata Carolina on tour!
From September 16 to 23, 2024, the Camerata Carolina embarked on a concert tour to Imperia, Sanremo and Montpellier. The Camerata Carolina had been preparing its program “European Choral Music from 6 Centuries and 7 Countries” since the beginning of the year.
The Camerata Carolina consists mainly of students and young researchers, for whom the trip represents a financial challenge. We have therefore launched a crowdfunding project through which you can directly support the choir on its journey and promote musical and cultural exchange.
European choral music from 6 centuries
Europe should be a unity of diversity - musically, it has been for a long time. With its program “European Choral Music from 6 Centuries”, the Camerata Carolina demonstrates this in its concert on Sunday, June 30, 2024 in the Peterskirche Heidelberg.
The works presented range from Gregorian chant to the 21st century. Well-known names - Bach, Bellini, Fauré, Soler, Stanford, Verdi - are represented with impressive compositions, but we have also selected lesser-known gems. The most recent work is Valentin Silvestrov's “Prayer for Ukraine” for twelve-part choir, which he wrote in 2014 to mark the uprising on Maidan Square in Kijiv. We consciously include this brave country in European music. The Camerata intensively cultivates the high art of a cappella singing and is regularly praised by audiences and the press for its transparent and warm choral sound. It will continue its frequent travels this year: it will present this program in Italy (Liguria) and France (Montpellier).
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WILLKOMMEN WELCOME BIENVENUE BENEVENUDO
Our choir is composed of mainly students and is open to all people who are musically inclined and who enjoy singing in an open, international, concentrated yet relaxed atmosphere. As choirs of the "Internationales Studienzentrum" at Heidelberg University, it is very important for us to have international students feel welcome during our choir rehearsals, performances and celebrations. The “Camerata Carolina”, the prize-winning chamber choir of the university, welcomes new members with choir experience and very good vocal and musical qualifications. We also have a small troupe, the GSG9, which performs at private parties, company events and university galas. The music repertoire ranges from contemplative sacred to lively secular.
