When: 2 May 2026, 11:30-16:45
Where: St Edmund Hall, Oxford
Organisers: Henrike Lähnemann, Monty Powell, Carlos Rodríguez Otero, Sharang Sharma
A group of Oxford medievalists is currently working on an edition of the liturgical music for the Frankfurt Passion Play which was left unfinished by the late Peter Macardle (Die liturgischen Gesänge der Frankfurter Dirigierrolle und des Frankfurter Passionsspiels, under contract with Open Book Publishers). As part of the launch, planned for autumn 2026, they intent to perform an extract of the Mary Magdalen scenes from the play in a new dramatic English translation. The workshop on 2 May is meant to help prepare this performane by creating an English verse version and testing the musical transcription (with musicologist Margot Fassler as guest of honour).
Everybody is invited to the workshops who is interested in creative dramatic translation, or Early Modern High Germany, or liturgical music, or an intersection of these. Please register your interest with one of the organisers at St Edmund Hall, Henrike Lähnemann or Carlos Rodríguez Otero; free brunch at St Edmund Hall is included.
- 11.30 – 12.30 First part of the workshop
- 12.30-1.30 Brunch
- 2-4pm Workshop continues
- 4-4.15pm Tea break
- 4.15-4.45pm Read-through performance in the Chapel