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Frankfurt / Main (dpa / lhe) - A musical journey through time into the world of the original Christians is to come to the - digital - premiere during the 3rd Ecumenical Church Congress in May.
The makers gave their first impressions on Monday in Frankfurt.
"The special thing about the creation of the piece is also its completely ecumenical character," said Eugen Eckert, Frankfurt stadium pastor and speaker of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) for church and sport.
Together with the Franciscan Helmut Schlegel, he wrote the libretto for the oratorio “Eins”.
"The development is due to the pandemic," said Eckert of the oratorio, which was originally supposed to be performed in the Frankfurt stadium "with the largest choir in the world" - up to 50,000 singers were intended.
Instead, virtual choir recordings will be made at the premiere on the Kirchentag website, it said.
The four soloists and the orchestra, in turn, have to keep their distance in a Frankfurt exhibition hall during the production of the oratorio.
According to the information, the plot is about a journalist who travels to the time of the early Christians for research and meets Peter and Paul, among others.
It should also deal with the divisions and conflicts in the course of church history.
Musically, the oratorio will be a crossover of traditional and pop music church music, it said.
The 90-minute work was composed by church musicians Peter Reulein from the Limburg diocese and Bernhard Kießig, speaker for popular music at the Center of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN).
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