Ensemble Parlamento: Ensemble Parlamento takes on the Nibelungenlied—but not in the way you might expect. This isn’t Siegfried’s story. It’s Kriemhild’s. First a courtly queen and devoted wife, she is undone by grief after Siegfried’s brutal death, her sorrow hardening into vengeance. That transformation—from mourning widow to avenging monarch—is the dark, driving heart of this medieval epic, told through the song of soprano Karin Weston, the voice of Kriemhild, in six musical chapters.

With no surviving melodies for the Nibelungenlied itself, the ensemble builds its sound world from kindred heroic songs, anchoring the program in a melody from the Jüngeren Hildebrandslied and reshaping it across historical styles.