Music: Damijan Močnik
Lyrics: Hildegard of Bingen
O Fire Of The Holy Spirit, Our Guide (O ignis Spiritus paracliti)

Awarded Slovenian composer Damijan Močnik composed this song on Hiledgard of Bingen theme. He wrote:

Joyful, danceable melodic loops grow into a unified whole, while the music is designed in surprisingly rich-sounding consonances. Thus, with a new sound, I established a dialogue with the past. The sounds of medieval musical instruments add to the excitement of the audiofrescoes that spread out before us. Art and music help us get in touch with the transcendent.

St. Stanislav Girls’ Choir of the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium is among the best European choirs led by charismatic conductor Helena Fojkar Zupančič.

Choir contact: [email protected]. Stanislav Girls’ Choir of the Diocesan Classical Gymnasium

Conductor: Helena Fojkar Zupančič
Music: St. Hildegard of Bingen and composer Damijan Močnik
O Fire Of The Holy Spirit, Our Guide (O ignis Spiritus paracliti)

Hildegard of Bingen (German: Hildegard von Bingen; Latin: Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegard and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German Benedictine abbess and polymath active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages. She is one of the best-known composers of sacred monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history. She has been considered by scholars to be the founder of scientific natural history in Germany.Hildegard's convent elected her as Magistra (mother superior) in 1136. She founded the monasteries of Rupertsberg in 1150 and Eibingen in 1165. Hildegard wrote theological, botanical, and medicinal works, as well as letters, hymns, and antiphons for the liturgy. She wrote poems and supervised miniature illuminations in the Rupertsberg manuscript of her first work, Scivias. There are more surviving chants by Hildegard than by any other composer from the entire Middle Ages, and she is one of the few known composers to have written both the music and the words. One of her works, the Ordo Virtutum, is an early example of liturgical drama and arguably the oldest surviving morality play. She is noted for the invention of a constructed language known as Lingua Ignota.

Translation: Tog Hoath, Neža Karlin
First Sopranos:

Pavlovič Arina
Mavrič Ana
Poredoš Jana
Suhodolnik Lucija
Skobe Julija
Otrin Eva
Rakar Polona
Strmčnik Ana
Lebar Anamarija
Novak Tonka

Second Sopranos:

Briški Katarina
Kumar Lea
Čarman Jasna
Zajec Ana
Avsenik Polona
Penko Neža
Vintar Zala
Dominko Diana
Martinjak Ruta
Škraba Eva Lucija

First altos:

Banko Marjeta
Škaler Eliška
Klavžar Lonja
Ivanc Elizabeta
Purnat Jasna
Lanišek Ema
Pirnat Eva
Brenčič Rahela
Šnajder Ana

Second altos:

Petrovič Josipina Julija
Grum Anka
Kavčič Lucija
Klobučar Klara
Sojar Ana Marija
Movrin Iva
Demšar Zala
Robnik Maja

A selection of Hildegard's poems and tutoring in medieval singing: dr. Katarina Šter
Motion designer: Barbara Kanc

Musicians:
Percussion, Hurdy-Gurdy, Tempura: Janez Jocif
Fidel: Tilen Udovič
Gothic Harp: Urška Rihteršič
Recorder: Una Košir

Conceptual and artistic manager of the project:
Helena Fojkar Zupančič

Costume designer:
Irena Tomažin

makeup and dressing assistance:
Petra Skubic, Zala Klavs, Lea Ložak

Logistics: Jože Iskra Peter Ogorevc
Cathering: Gregor Ostanek

Production Crew:

Music producer:
Boris Rener

Balance Engineer and mastering: Iztok Zupan

Director of photography:
Juš Hrastnik
Primož Zevnik

Cameras:
Andraž Žigart
Matej Zagorc
Tadej Pernuš
Jan Presker
Juš Hrastnik
Primož Zevnik

Remote controlled camera
Matej Zagorc

Camera assistant
Jan Presker

Illuminator
Domain of Lušin
Tadej Pernuš

Lighting programmer
Sebastjan Zavrl

Construction of Scenography:
Gašper Polajžar
Domen Kovaček

Stage workers:
Goran Veselinović
Jan Novak
Borut Jalšovec
Nace Tomato
Darjan Vidmar

Stage constructions
Rok Zavrl (STRC)

Lighting equipment
Event Lighting

Stage equipment
MB Grip

elevator
RIWAL d.o.o.

Security
David Champaigne
Benjamin Bogovic

Material manager:
Jakob Zevnik

Editorial and color:
Primož Zevnik

Production manager
Gal Nagode

Producer:
Juš Hrastnik

Asisstant director:
Juš Hrastnik

Director and producer:
Primož Zevnik

Special thanks to The Society of Jesus Ljubljana and father Tomaž Mikuš, and special thanks to Ljubljana City Mayor: Zoran Janković
Special thanks to Archdiocese Ljubljana and auxiliary bishop Msgr. dr. Franc Šuštar

Recorded in cinema quality in St. Joseph Church, Poljane Ljubljana Slovenia
Productions: TAJUS, PPZ