Press reviews

…This portrait is enchanting… “Anaesthesia” tells about the merry strolling between this world and the next…

…The awakened curiosity, the intelligent mixing of dance, narrative, pantomime, drama, song, and adaptations, skewed to differing degrees, of thirty-two Handel hits is for all its craziness filled with an earnestness that realises Handel’s microcosm and the contradictory character of his time more accurately than any corny popular humour…

…Nicola Hümpel and her actors make the fulminant exaltations of Handel’s time ravishingly clear in their musical selection and their interplay of exalted physicality – and are congenially musically accompanied by Fanui, the Tyrolean music ensemble, which surprises with striking sounds – without disavowing the Handel genius… A surprising variation of the otherwise so sublime Handel tribute…

…This “baroque narcosis”, presented by Nico and the Navigators together with the musical ensemble Franui at the opening of the Handel festival in Halle, is an extraordinary dance in a baroque corset… And so midnight on the festival’s first day brought with it unanimous and jubilant applause for the most daring performance to have featured in Halle’s Handel festival in recent years…

…What the full-body poets and baroque musicians playfully combine with grace and grace, temperament and furor to create a surprisingly rousing Gesamtkunstwerk, captivates with courage and humility in equal measure as a birthday present for Handel.

…One experienced a genre-crossing, tragicomic, intercultural and unconventional musical theater evening, which will remain very positively in the memory…