„Nordlichter“

With their new winter-program „Nordlichter“ („Northern Lights“) the four Aquabella-singers take their audience to the far north. Inspired by myths and lores from Iceland, they wrote the lyrics to their songs themselves for the first time and sing in German.

Still true to their concept, they also chant ballads and folksongs from Iceland, Sweden, Norway and Latvia.

Like the northern lights coloring the winter skies, Aquabella present the multifarious tone colours of a world in which the giantess Gryla and her 13 troll sons hold an eminent place.

Like sometimes relatives tend to do, these trolls invade the human homes: They scare the human inhabitants as well as the cattle, lap up the contents of pots and pans, slam doors or hook the smoked meat off the chimney.

But every time they come and steal something, they leave a little present behind for the children.

 In their current production, Aquabella are snowwhite elf-women, weaving their stories into a big woollen cloth, singing songs about love, winter and snow, but also of death and the fears of mankind. Some stories linger on for years, never ending, sometimes because the thread gets torn...

With the assistance of the audience a kitchen is built up in pantomime, spoon, grater and scoop appear as if magically conjured and are converted to percussion instruments to accompany the songs rhythmically.