Ragazze Quartet, Katharine Dain & Ensemble

Aftab Darvishi
Never Belonged

Annelies Van Parys
Medea

Calliope Tsoupaki
Penelope

Meriç Artaç
Şahmaran Katharine Dain, Diamanda Dramm
Mother Shipton

Amarante Nat
Where three roads meet

Saskia Venegas
Sortzain

With their project They Have Waited Long Enough, Katharine Dain and the Ragazze Quartet tell the stories of famous and lesser-known women from a new perspective. The artists have commissioned a number of contemporary female composers to create works for soprano, string quartet, and different solo instruments that lend a voice to these long-silenced figures. Mythological characters including Medea and Penelope appear side by side with historical figures such as María San Juan de Garonda, a 16th-century Basque midwife (sortzain) who was persecuted as a witch and burned at the stake.