Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares

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Concluded event 29/08/2025 at 17:30
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Extraordinary voices echo from the Balkans’ past, blending their timeless beauty with the sounds of today

Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares will evoke even stronger emotions than those we have come to know through their records or their contribution to the music of renowned artists such as Kate Bush, Paul Simon, Elio e le Storie Tese. 

“According to an ancient legend,” writes Giuseppe D’Amato, “when God divided the land among the peoples, he gave the Bulgarians a small corner of paradise, with wild and unspoilt nature, where the women were trained to sing so severely that they preserved the sound of Orpheus’ lyre over the centuries.” This is what the women’s choir Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares revives today.

A choir originally made up of singers discovered in rural villages at the beginning of the 1950s, with no musical training but with exceptional vocal talents, voices ready to be tuned by their conductors to perform ancient, mystical and obscure repertoires from all over the Danube area and then the Mediterranean.  

It was Peter Murhpy, the legendary Bauhaus singer, who ‘rediscovered’ them in the mid-1980s and sent a tape to the English label 4AD, a record company open to experimentation. Ivo, the label boss, later said that when he played it, his knees trembled with emotion. 

 

4AD then reissued Le Mystere des Voix Bulgares, a record originally cut in 1975 thanks to the Swiss musicologist Marcel Cellier. The response was overwhelming: suffice it to say that no non-Anglophone vocal group had ever before sold 100,000 copies in the UK and 500,000 in the US. And the rest is history. 

Today it is our knees that will tremble when the Bulgarian singers make their voices heard in Val di Fiemme, in the presence of the Dolomites.  

Concert venue

5.30 pm Palafiemme, Cavalese

A limited number of tickets will be available from 3.30 pm at the box office of the Theater.

Info
+39 0462 241111
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An initiative
APT Val di Fiemme Cembra
Trentino Marketing
Latemar Dolomites
Magnifica Comunità di Fiemme
Comuni di Tesero e di Cavalese