Façade - an Entertainment combines the dazzling incidental music of William Walton with the surrealist, onomatopoeic poems of the English poet Edith Sitwell, performed by the renowned Scottish voice artist and actor Graham F. Valentine. With her quest for freedom, she fought against Victorian double standards and provoked many a scandal in the 1920s. Today, the rise of regressive forces repeatedly threatens our democratic values. Two new, explosive ensemble works by composers Asia Ahmetjanova and Charlotte Torres provide fresh courage in Ensemble Phoenix Basel's programme.
