Dead men tell no tales... but we are no men.

Johanna Telander’s “The Tales of Les Dames Blanches” breathes life into the most universally fearsome female ghosts, and unveils why their stories are still relevant today.

The highly anticipated new musical work by Finnish-American composer Johanna Telander explores the depths of womanhood through “Les Dames Blanches”, or Ladies in White, a collection of notorious ghost stories told throughout the world, from the folklore of medieval Europe, to fireside tales across all four continents.

From France’s “La Dame Blanche de Puymartin”, to Latin America’s “La Llorona”, to Philippines’ “White Lady of Balete Drive” to Finland’s “Valkoinen Rouva”, the musical depicts the individual journeys of these elusive women in white, and the horrific fables they inspired, finding connection points in the feminine archetypes of Jungian psychology.

From maidens to mothers, and witches to queens, the Dames Blanches of this story are as complex as the real women in our lives today - and the musical explores the haunting inner secrets history pages may have left unmarked and unexplored.

What do we really know of these feared phantoms in white, these creatures of light and darkness? And what could their stories teach us about womanhood in our world today, if only we dare to lift the veil?