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where music and theatre collide

The Telling is an arts charity that attempts to "break new ground" (The Guardian), where new writing by award-winning writer Clare Norburn and music collide. We tour high-quality, accessible and affordable music/theatre productions to excluded communities.

The imagined testimony of the extraordinary medieval abbess, Hildegard von Bingen, alongside her haunting chant

19th - 30th September 2025

Lancaster, Glasgow, Manchester, London, Chichester, Dorset & more TBA

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The extraordinary life and visceral music of the murderous 16th/17th-century composer-prince Carlo Gesualdo

1st - 28th November 2025

Manchester, Lewes, London, Folkestone, Liverpool, Ulverston, Bedford, Wolverhampton & more TBA

PROGRAMMES

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TOUR DIARY

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CDs

Artwork for The Telling's Gardens of Delight CD
Photo from Into the Melting Pot in Oxford, 2018 with purple lighting. Singer Clare Norburn is singing in the centre with a grin while Ariane Prüssner (left) looks on thougtftully and harpist Joy Smith, oud player Giles Lewin and recorder player Fatma Lahham are accompanying in the background.

"mesmerising"
The Guardian

Into the Melting Pot Trailer
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Vision Trailer
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Unsung Heroine Trailer
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I, Spie Film Trailer
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Thank you to our funders past & present

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Golsoncott Foundation logo featuring G, F and a treble clef on a music staff
Gwendoline and Margaret Davies Charity logo featuring white silhouettes of two women in a blue circle
The Radcliffe Trust logo featuring a line drawing of the Radcliffe Camera
Unity Theatre Trust logo featuring a theatre comedy mask

The David Snowdon Trust - The Fidelio Charitable Trust - Gale Family Charity Trust - The Grimmitt Trust - The Hadfield Trust - Harold Hyam Wingate Foundation - The Hugh Fraser Foundation - The Ida Carroll Trust - The James Beattie Charitable Trust - James T Howat Charitable Trust - The Marchus Trust - The Nugee Foundation - The Pear Tree Fund for Music - The Samuel Gardner Memorial Trust - Scops Arts Trust - Shoresh Charitable Trust - Sir John Fisher Foundation - Souter Charitable Trust - The Sylvia Waddilove Foundation - The W E Dunn Charitable Trust - The W M Mann Foundation - The Wixamtree Trust

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