DUO ENCANTO
WHERE THE SEAS TOUCH
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A journey through water, love and transformation - from the moonlit waters of Venice to the singing fountains of Greece...
With music by Berlioz, Toldrà, Granados, Serrano, Chausson, Hahn and Ravel...
At the threshold of Gibraltar, where two seas meet but do not mingle, the journey begins. The Mediterranean and the Atlantic exchange their history, salt and song, a moment of passage between worlds.
Where the Seas Touch follows that current eastwards, tracing the invisible dialogue between shores. From France’s waters of remembrance, where love and loss dissolve beneath still waters, the programme moves towards the tides of life and emotion along the Iberian coast.
The journey continues through Venice’s moonlit waters, and finally reaches Greece, where song becomes ritual.
Where the Seas Touch re-members the feminine rhythm of water and the pulse of the earth beneath sound. In a world of speed and distraction, it offers a counter gesture: a contemplative space where listening itself becomes an act of presence.
Each composer listens to water differently: as elegy, as river, as breeze, as sea, as origin. Together they form a single current, an act of re-membering that moves through cultures, herstories and bodies, revealing how sound, like water, is the world's first memory.
Falcon soprano Natali Boghossian and pianist Hans van Beelen perform as Duo Encanto, where voice and piano meet like two currents in the same sea. Singing in multiple languages, Natali embraces the sea’s many tongues. Her Greek songs flow from a language that once surrounded her in childhood on an island, a tribute to a world that shaped her and to the deep connection between this music and her Armenian roots. Every piece is a story, every note a thread in a larger drama. Hans’s musical sensitivity draws out the warmth of Natali’s soulful voice, while her commanding presence elevates every phrase he plays. Together they create something rare: a synergy that feels effortless yet electrifying. Their name, Duo Encanto, meaning both “to sing” and “to enchant”, captures the magic they bring to the stage.