MMXVII RUHE the Diary of the One Who Disappeared Private View MUZIEKTHEATER TRANSPARANT LUIGI DE ANGELIS ЗМЕЯ

WIM HENDERICKX Aquarius’ Dream Revelations

LIESA VAN DER AA ParadiseHell MUZIEKTHEATER TRANSPARANT ANNELIES VAN PARYS And you must suffer MMXVII RUHE The Diary of the One Who Disappeared Private View MUZIEKTHEATER TRANSPARANT LUIGI DE ANGELIS ЗМЕЯ

IVO VAN HOVE Kings of War The Diary of the One Who Disappeared Roman Tragedies MM WOUTER VAN LOOY X Earth diver VI I Die Zauberflöte Revelations

NAOMI BEELDENS WWW.TRANSPARANT.BE La Voix humaine

CLARON MCFADDEN Secrets Lilith Nightshade: Aubergine

WENDE SNIJDERS Wende CONTENTS

A house full of voices 3 Artists 4 Partners & co-producers 5

NEW PRODUCTIONS Earth diver 6 Die Zauberflöte 8 Nightshade: Aubergine 10 Wende 12 The Diary of the One Who Disappeared 14 ЗМЕЯ 16 Aquarius’ Dream 18 Revelations 20

ON TOUR La Voix humaine 22 Secrets 23 Lilith 24 Listen to the silence 25 And you must suffer 26 Polar Night 27 Kings of War 28 RUHE 29 Private View 30 Roman Tragedies 31 Le coupeur d’eau 32

TRANSLAB Windischgrätz 42 Abendrot 42 ParadiseHell 43 Medeamaterial 44

Matterhonger 45 Matterhorn 46 Opera21 47 Songbook 48

Info 57

Calendar 59 A HOUSE FULL

OF VOICES

WIM HENDERICKX 18 Aquarius’ Dream “Over the past 20 years, Muziektheater Transparent has charted an impres- 20 Revelations sive course in which there has been room for both experimentation and established values.” This remark was part of the Music-Theatre’s Assessment Committee’s preliminary advice on our plan for the 2017-2021 period. This LIESA VAN DER AA 43 ParadiseHell motivates us even more for the future. As our aim is to profile ourselves even more pronouncedly as a music-theatre company in which the voice plays a central role, we are inviting artists whose practice centres on vocal work: ANNELIES VAN PARYS 26 And you must suffer Claron McFadden, Naomi Beeldens, Els Mondelaers, Liesa Van der Aa and 29 RUHE Wende Snijders, as well as our in-house composers Wim Henderickx and 14 The Diary of the One Who Disappeared Annelies Van Parys. Three powerful directors are taking charge of the major- 30 Private View ity of our productions: Ivo van Hove, Wouter Van Looy and Luigi De Angelis. Finally, we will be collaborating closely with a number of leading ensembles: B’Rock Orchestra, HERMESensemble, Bl!NDMAN and Collegium Vocale Gent. LUIGI DE ANGELIS 16 ЗМЕЯ A new part of our operations is the translab label, with which we offer young people the opportunity to develop their own projects with our support. Our own workspace in Borgerhout, Matterhorn, is playing a key role in this. We are look- IVO VAN HOVE 28 Kings of War ing forward to an exciting trajectory with these artists and expect all this cross- 14 The Diary of the One Who Disappeared pollination to yield some innovative productions. We hope to have the opportunity 31 Roman Tragedies to welcome you on a regular basis during the course of the 2016-17 season.

WOUTER VAN LOOY 22 La Voix humaine Marking the death of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016), 25 Listen to the silence Muziektheater Transparant’s honorary chairman 6 Earth diver When Muziektheater Transparant embarked on a new course in 1994, we 8 Die Zauberflöte chose to perform a triptych of Peter Maxwell Davies’ compositions, Eights Songs 20 Revelations for a Mad King, Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot and Vesalii Icones. Prior to this, his work had barely been performed in Belgium. Max, as the composer was known to everyone, attended our premiere and accepted our request to become our NAOMI BEELDENS 22 La Voix humaine honorary president. We performed his children’s opera Cinderella, his bizarre social satire Resurrection and his masterpiece The Lighthouse. The singer Els Mondelaers was magnificent in The Medium and we presented the world CLARON MCFADDEN 23 Secrets premiere of Mr Emmet takes a walk, a work that he composed especially for 24 Lilith us. Peter Maxwell Davies created a fascinating kind of music theatre, simple 27 Polar Night in terms of its scenic requirements, but socially relevant and with a particular 48 Songbook focus on the possibilities of the human voice. These elements still underpin 10 Nightshade: Aubergine our work today and we are therefore dedicating this coming season to him. 18 Aquarius’ Dream

On behalf of the whole crew of Muziektheater Transparant WENDE SNIJDERS 12 Wende Guy Coolen, General and artistic director

2 3 A HOUSE FOR IN COLLABORATION ARTISTS WITH

* Wim Henderickx [1962] teaches composi- performances, including Kings of War (2015) INTERNATIONAL NATIONAL tion at the conservatoires in Antwerp and and The Diary of the One Who Disappeared Asko|Schönberg Aventura Musica Amsterdam. His work has won awards both (2017). – www.tga.nl at home and abroad. As Muziektheater Trans- Cappella Amsterdam BL!NDMAN parant’s in-house composer (since 1996) he * Wouter Van Looy [1966] is a stage director ChorWerk Ruhr B’Rock Orchestra composed The Queen Without a Country (2014) at Muziektheater Transparant, is joint amongst others. This production won an artistic director along with Guy Coolen, and Deutsche Oper Berlin Collegium Vocale Gent MTN award in 2015. – www.wimhenderickx.com is responsible for TRANSLAB. In addition, Fanny & Alexander Concertgebouw Brugge he is artistic director at Zonzo Compagnie * Liesa Van der Aa [1986] is one of the most and the founder of the international youth Holland Festival deFilharmonie versatile artists of her generation. She has music festival BIG BANG. He is highly active Jheronimus Bosch 500 De Munt/La Monnaie created some unique border-crossing in the international music-theatre circuit musical projects. She composed the music and his productions, such as The Queen Korzo Producties de Roovers for Van den vos (2013). Her second album Without a Country (2014), have won Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg deSingel WOTH (2014) also toured as a music-theatre numerous awards.– www.transparant.be performance. – www.liesavanderaa.be Luzerner Theater Escautville * Naomi Beeldens [1988] has performed in Nationale Opera Amsterdam HERMESensemble * Annelies Van Parys [1975] studied compo- Muziektheater Transparant’s youth opera sition at the Royal Conservatoire in Ghent many times and sang in Porcelain (2010). National Opera Bergen JazzLab Series and in 2011 was awarded the title of Honorary In 2015, she completed her studies in clas- Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Kaaitheater Ambassador. As an in-house composer at sical song at the Royal Conservatoire in Muziektheater Transparant (since 2007) her Antwerp with the music-theatre project Opera Days Rotterdam Klarafestival work has included the composition of her La Voix humaine. – www.transparant.be Ruhrtriennale Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen first opera Private View (2015), which has won a number of international prizes. * The soprano Claron McFadden [1961] Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop Kunstenfestivaldesarts – www.anneliesvanparys.be studied song at the Eastman School of Music Studio Minailo Kunsthuis Vlaanderen in New York. She is known for her wide- * Luigi De Angelis [1974] is a director, set ranging repertoire, ranging from baroque to Theaterfestival Boulevard kunstZ designer and musician. In 1992, together traditional and contemporary music. Théâtre National de Chaillot lab.oratorium with Chiara Lagani, he set up the company For Muziektheater Transparant she created Fanny & Alexander in Ravenna. For Muziek- Lilith (2013) and Secrets (2015), her first The Barbican Laika theater Transparant, he directed the youth music-theatre projects as a theatre maker. Toneelgroep Amsterdam MAfestival opera In bocca al lupo in 2015. – www.claronmcfadden.com – fannyalexander.e-production.org Wiener Festwochen Post uit Hessdalen * The Dutch singer-songwriter Wende Wroclaw National Forum of Music Wintervuur * Ivo van Hove [1958] is both artistic director Snijders [1978] graduated from the and stage director at Toneelgroep Amsterdam. Amsterdam Theaterschool in 2004. Zeeland Nazomerfestival Zonzo Compagnie He has garnered many awards for his impres- Her debut album Quand tu dors (2004) won 33 ¹/ Collective sive artistic career. Muziektheater Transpa- many awards. Since Wende sings Winterreise ³ rant has entered into a multi-annual colla- (2015), she has also worked on joint projects boration with Toneelgroep Amsterdam for in the classical circuit. – www.wende.nu

4 ARTISTS PARTNERS & CO-PRODUCERS 5 EARTH DIVER

The driving force behind Earth diver was the discourse 21 > 24.09.2016 of two controversial philosophers who have a whole- ESSEN hearted aversion to the way the global crisis is being Ruhrtriennale handled: Peter Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. While the www.ruhrtriennale.de former urges us not to wait for a God who will not come and to change our lives ourselves, the latter sees a connection between the stages of a grieving process and our handling of the crisis: from denial to anger to acceptance. The director Wouter Van Looy puts a chorus on stage that sings the work of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): religious music that offered comfort and immortality at times when plague and war were devastating Germany. The composer Nikolaus Brass “The only and the vocal artist Phil Minton offer a counterpoint to this and evoke a world the way it was, the way it is, and the way it perhaps will be. The audience seeks During the 2017-18 season, Earth diver out a place in the space, where the video artist Wim will be going on tour in Flanders. catastrophe that Catrysse flanks Schütz’s musical world with images from Barentsburg, an isolated Russian outpost where We are organising a visit on coal is mined to the present day. The mining activ- 24 September 2016 for anyone ity there is no longer profitable and God has been who would like to see Earth diver will convince dissolved in a ‘world of markets and battle’. Neverthe- at the Ruhrtriennale. less, people keep on digging there in a state of denial: For more information, go to deeper and deeper, and on the brink of exhaustion. www.transparant.be/en/visit. everyone will be the catastrophe

Composers Heinrich Schütz / Nikolaus Brass Musical director Florian Helgath Conceived and directed by Wouter Van Looy Video Wim Catrysse Soundscapes David Van Bouwel Costume design Johanna Trudzinski that no one Performer and vocalist Phil Minton Chorus ChorWerk Ruhr Ensemble B’Rock Orchestra

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant and ChorWerk Ruhr for the Ruhrtriennale and co -produced by Klarafestival, Opera Days Rotterdam, MAfestival, B’Rock Orchestra and Escautville. survives.”

With the support of the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF). Peter Sloterdijk

6 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 7 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

The arias and fairy-tale figures in Die Zauberflöte are 17 / 19 / 23 / 26 / 29.12.2016 part of our collective memory, but beyond its light- 02 / 04 / 06 / 08 / 12 / 21.01.2017 hearted, folksy nature, there are also a series of enig- 03 / 08 / 22.02.2017 matic, underlying layers to this opera by Mozart (1756- 05.03.2017 1791). Despite numerous interpretations, this master- LUCERNE piece has remained extremely popular, and it challeng- www.luzernertheater.ch es directors time and time again. In his version for the Luzerner Theater opera house in Switzerland, Wouter Van Looy focuses on two elements of this fairy-tale opera that give it an overwhelmingly contemporary relevance. On the one hand, Die Zauberflöte explores in depth a clash between two social models, in which a spiritual movement is faced with a decadent regime Die Zauberflöte is the first production personified by the ‘Queen of the Night’. Power is put in a series of joint projects with in the hands of Sarastro, a leader who legitimises his the Lucerne opera house. absolute power and violent actions by means of spiritual values. On the other hand, Die Zauberflöte also For the time being, Die Zauberflöte reads as the initiation ceremony of a boy who is chosen, is only being performed in Lucerne. converts and treads in Sarastro’s footsteps. Following We will be organising a visit during on from The Queen Without a Country, which won an the weekend of 17 December 2016. MTN Award, Wouter Van Looy is once again working For more information, go to with Freija Van Esbroeck, Johanna Trudzinski and the www.transparant.be/en/visit. video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer. Mozart’s

Composer Mozart Librettist Emanuel Schikaneder Musical director Clemens Heil Director Wouter Van Looy Set design Freija Van Esbroeck and Wouter Van Looy Video Kurt d’Haeseleer Costume design Johanna Trudzinski Sarastro Alessio Cacciamani fairy-tale Tamino Denzil Delaere Queen of the Night Diana Schnürpel Pamina Magdalena Risberg First Lady Rebecca Krynski Second Lady Karin Torbijörnsdóttir Third Lady Sarah Alexandra Hudarew Papageno Bernt Ola Volungholen Papagena Maja Bader Monostatos Robert Maszl Speaker and Second Armed Man Jason Cox reckoning with Chorus Chor des Luzerner Theater Music performed by Luzerner Sinfonieorchester Produced by Luzerner Theater, co -produced by Muziektheater Transparant. ancient times

8 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 9 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE

In Nightshade: Aubergine, Claron McFadden goes in 20.02.2017 search of the common roots of our various cultures by BRUGES focusing on one of the most iconoclastic ingredients www.concertgebouw.be on the culinary scene: the aubergine. Despite the huge migration that it has experienced, this age-old fruit 31.03 & 01 / 02.04.2017 from the nightshade family has always managed to AMSTERDAM adapt without losing its striking identity. Documen- www.ostadeadam.nl tary maker Lisa Tahon and McFadden have followed this route back to its origins: from the West via the 29.04.2017 Mediterranean countries to the Far East. During her ANTWERP journey, she stays as a guest in local people’s homes in Festival Opera21 various different regions. At each stop, she is taught www.desingel.be a traditional dish and song, and she takes the recipes and melodies with her. Together with her ideal group 13 / 14.05.2017 of musical colleagues, drawn from a wide range of ROTTERDAM ‘nightshade cultures’ – Roma, Belgian, Iraqi, Greek Opera Days Rotterdam and Afro-Anatolian – she is contributing a new chap- www.operadagenrotterdam.nl “I believe that there ter to the tradition of migration. Nightshade: Aubergi- ne shows how mutual cross-pollination can strength- en our common identity, and allows the audience to experience the rich tradition of aubergine-based are two things that cuisine, in combination with live music and a travel documentary. With Nightshade: Aubergine, Concertgebouw Brugge will be celebrating its fifteenth anni- all cultures possess versary on 20 February 2017. and that link us at

Concept and vocals Claron McFadden Video Lisa Tahon Directing advice and coaching Sjaron Minailo Accordion Tuur Florizoone Violin and guitar Tcha Limberger a primary level: Qanun and oud Osama Abdulrasol Bass and bouzouki Michel Hatzigeorgiou Percussion Shahin During Dramaturge Tobias Kokkelmans

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co -produced by Concertgebouw Brugge food and music.” and Opera Days Rotterdam. In collaboration with Studio Minailo. Claron McFadden

10 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 11 10.02.2017 (try-out) 10.03.2017 08.04.2017 WENDE DORDRECHT GRONINGEN ENSCHEDE www.energiehuis.nl www.de-oosterpoort.nl www.wilminktheater.nl

16.02.2017 (try-out) 12.03.2017 11.04.2017 NIJVERDAL LEYDEN ROTTERDAM www.zinintheater.nl www.stadspodia.nl www.luxortheater.nl Over the coming years, Wende Snijders and Muziek- theater Transparant will be collaborating intensive- 17.02.2017 (try-out) 16 / 17.03.2017 13.04.2017 ly. In recent years, Wende has developed into one MIDDELBURG THE HAGUE DELFT of the Netherlands’ most versatile and controver- www.zeelandtheaters.nl www.paard.nl www.theaterdeveste.nl sial artists and performers. Whether it’s pop, elec- tro, classical or contemporary music, or even a film, 18.02.2017 (try-out) 18.03.2017 14.04.2017 she always succeeds in moving her audience deeply. BERGEN OP ZOOM OSS UTRECHT Wende’s passion for telling stories in her own voice, www.gebouw-t.nl www.lievekamp.nl www.stadsschouwburg-utrecht.nl cutting through all possible genres, is the common thread that runs through everything that she does. 22.02.2017 (try-out) 22.03.2017 15.04.2017 Whether performed in a theatre or a club, Wende’s DOETINCHEM ALKMAAR HAARLEM productions are bursting with expression. In her new www.amphion.nl www.theaterdevest.nl www.theater-haarlem.nl performance, Wende, ‘Storytelling to Music’ as she herself describes it, once again plays a central role. 23.02.2017 (try-out) 23.03.2017 21.04.2017 She has asked renowned writers and musicians from LELYSTAD LEEUWARDEN ‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH both home and abroad, including Dimitri Verhulst www.agora-lelystad.nl www.harmonie.nl www.verkadefabriek.nl and Tom Lanoye, to write new stories and songs with her. With them, she will be reflecting on herself, the 24.02.2017 (try-out) 25.03.2017 22.04.2017 future, the language and the world in which she lives. MEPPEL DRACHTEN ARNHEM The result is certain to be an intimate, surprising and www.schouwburgogterop.nl www.lawei.nl www.arnhemsepodia.nl occasionally confronting journey. 26.02.2017 (try-out) 29.03.2017 25.04.2017 KAMPEN BREDA LOUVAIN www.stadsgehoorzaalkampen.nl www.chasse.nl www.30cc.be “In the theatre, 28.02.2017 (try-out) 30.03.2017 29.04.2017 HOOFDDORP ZWOLLE GOUDA everything falls into www.demeerse.com www.zwolsetheaters.nl www.goudseschouwburg.nl 02.03.2017 (première) 31.03.2017 30.04.2017 AMSTERDAM EINDHOVEN AMSTERDAM place with Wende.” NRC, 2014 www.paradiso.nl www.parktheater.nl www.paradiso.nl 03.03.2017 01.04.2017 22.05.2017 Concept, composition and vocals Wende Snijders VEENENDAAL MAASTRICHT ANTWERP Authors Dimitri Verhulst, Tom Lanoye and others www.lampegiet.nl www.theateraanhetvrijthof.nl Antwerpse Kleppers www.toneelhuis.be Produced by WENDE, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant. 09.03.2017 07.04.2017 In collaboration with Behoud de Begeerte. HOORN APELDOORN www.hetpark.nl www.orpheus.nl

12 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 13 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED

The Diary of the One Who Disappeared can best be 11 / 12.03.2017 described as an intimate self-portrait. In this melan- BRUSSELS choly tale of the village boy Janik, who leaves every- Klarafestival thing behind to follow a gypsy girl, Leoš Janáček (1854- www.kaaitheater.be 1928) saw his feelings for his muse Kamila Stösslová mirrored. Will Janik’s longing for passion free him 22.04.2017 from a stifling environment? Or will he throw away ANTWERP his whole existence for an illusion? Written in the Festival Opera21 period in which his relationship with the much young- www.operaballet.be er Kamila was creating a furore, Janáček’s poetry becomes a mix of cruelty and tenderness. His passion 05 > 09.05.2017 for his new love, and the poetry of the folk language, LONDON piano and voice, inspired him to create a song cycle www.roh.org.uk in 22 scenes. The unique nature of the score lies in its minimalistic nature: there is no dramatic treatment, 12 / 13.05.2017 mise-en-scène or orchestra. Ivo van Hove directs the ROTTERDAM leading singers Ed Lyon and Silvia de La Muela. Taking Opera Days Rotterdam her fascination with the voice as her starting point, www.operadagenrotterdam.nl Annelies Van Parys is composing a new piece as an answer to this gripping tale about detachment. 21.05.2017 AMSTERDAM www.muziekgebouw.nl

“No one

Composers Leoš Janácek / Annelies Van Parys Director Ivo van Hove Set design Jan Versweyveld Costume design An D’Huys Tenor Ed Lyon / Paul O’Neill [22.04] can escape Mezzo-soprano Silvia de La Muela Actor Hugo Koolschijn Pianist Lada Valesova Chorus Members of De Munt’s Choral Academy Dramaturge Krystian Lada

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co -produced by Klarafestival, De Munt/La Monnaie, his destiny.” Kaaitheater, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Opera Days Rotterdam. Leoš Janáček, The Diary of the One Who Disappeared.

14 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 15 THE RIOT OF SEDUCTION

Together with the adventurous musicians from the 17.03.17 Berlin-based Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and BRUGES the young singers from translab, the Italian thea- Klarafestival tre maker Luigi De Angelis stages an evocation of www.concertgebouw.be the musical world of Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), the founder of Les Ballets Russes. ЗМЕЯ (snake) is 19.03.17 a performance about ‘the brilliant general of art’, ANTWERP who in his productions linked artists from various Klarafestival disciplines. As a flamboyant charlatan, he had all the www.desingel.be components of the ideal patron, except money. Yet he succeeded in seducing the audience and creating a revolutionary aesthetic for music and dance. With the ambiguity of a snake, he injected a new hedonistic and aesthetic sensitivity into the audience’s conscious- ness. Whirling like a musical vortex, the new production ЗМЕЯ will spread through the concert hall and beyond. The audience will be carried away by a capri- cious and provocative spectacle, which begins as an installation but is gradually transformed into a performance that takes in the whole space – which is exactly the way Diaghilev would have wanted it. An ode to

Composers Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky and others the visionary Concept Luigi De Angelis and Michael Rauter Musical director Michael Rauter Director, lighting and set design Luigi De Angelis Musical and scenic performance Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop With the TRANSLAB singers. innovator

Produced by Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and Fanny & Alexander, co -produced by Muziektheater Transparant / TRANSLAB, Klarafestival, Concertgebouw Brugge and deSingel. Diaghilev

16 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 17 AQUARIUS’ DREAM

Aquarius’ Dream is about the great, the elusive and the 18.03.2017 supernatural. The title alludes to hope and to man’s ANTWERP focus on the future. This sweeping symphony is inspi- www.elisabethcenter.be red by the celestial bodies and also alludes to the human relationship with the divine, the cosmos and beyond. Aquarius’ Dream consists of three large sec- tions, in between each of which is an interlude inspired by a dream. The title of this work is also the title of the third and final part. The soprano Claron McFadden will be giving a solo performance alongside deFilharmonie symphony orchestra. Jorrit Tamminga’s electronics act as both a complement and a counterpart to the orchestra. With his second symphony, just as in his Symphony N°1, Wim Henderickx tries to reconcile the vast sym- phonic form of the past with a contemporary interpretation of it. Thanks to the staging, the spatial arrange- ment of the orchestra and the electronics, the audience will be immersed in a broad-based sensory experience of sound, time and space. Wim Henderickx was commissioned to compose Aquarius’ Dream by deFilharmonie, where he is artist in residence. The first world premiere for deFilharmonie in

Composer Wim Henderickx Musical director Thierry Fischer the renovated Electronics Jorrit Tamminga Vocals Claron McFadden Music performed by deFilharmonie Produced by deFilharmonie and Muziektheater Transparant. Elizabeth Hall

18 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 19 RE VEL ATIONS

Revelations is a multimedia project based on the strik- 21 / 23.04.2017 ing visions of the 13th-century poetess and mystic ANTWERP Hadewijch d’Anvers (s.d. – 1248). Hers are among the Festival Opera21 www.desingel.be “Ende dat aescijn most astonishing writings in the history of our literature. In her Visions, in the tradition of mediaeval Christian mysticism, she describes an ecstatic loving 25.04.2017 relationship with the divine Other; the key word is MALINES Festival van Vlaanderen Mechelen dat hi doe hadde passion. In a setting in which an individual is placed opposite a chorus, Revelations seeks out the power of www.mechelenhoortstemmen.be visionary experiences and ecstasy in our contemporary context. The composer Wim Henderickx is writ- 20.05.2017 ROTTERDAM ghesienlect, dat was ing a new work without words in which we hear the inspiration taken from mediaeval and Renaissance Opera Days Rotterdam music for female voices. The HERMESensemble www.operadagenrotterdam.nl and Jorrit Tamminga’s electronic music are given an ontsienlec ende important role in the score. Following Void and The Queen Without a Country, Henderickx is once again collaborating with the director Wouter Van Looy, who for Revelations is creating an immaterial installation onverdrachlec te using light and smoke in which the images made by the video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer make reference to Hadewijch’s mysticism. gherijnne in siene.” Hadewijch d’Anvers, Visions.

“And the countenance he presented was invisible and unendurable Composer and musical director Wim Henderickx Authors Hadewijch d’Anvers / Erwin Mortier Director Wouter Van Looy Video Kurt d’Haeseleer to glance at with the eyes.” Costume design Johanna Trudzinski Lighting design Peter Quasters Electronics Jorrit Tamminga Soprano Lore Binon Chorus Cappella Amsterdam Ensemble HERMESensemble Dramaturge Veerle Fraeters

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co -produced by deSingel, Opera Days Rotterdam, HERMESensemble and Cappella Amsterdam.

20 NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION 21 04.06.2016 LA VOIX HUMAINE HEERENVEEN SECRETS Oranjewoud Festival www.oranjewoudfestival.nl

05.08.2016 LONDON The soprano Naomi Beeldens is presenting her own 28.05.2016 www.tete-a-tete.org.uk As a source of inspiration for their intimist musical interpretation of La Voix humaine by the French com- ROTTERDAM production Secrets, the soprano Claron McFadden poser Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) on the basis of a Opera Days Rotterdam 12.01.2017 and the Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio written work by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). In this www.operadagenrotterdam.nl ANTWERP chose… secrets. They gathered anonymous stories monologue in the form of a telephone conversation, a www.zuidpool.be from the general public and took inspiration from the woman makes a final attempt to win back her beloved. 28 / 29.09.2016 widely-varying character of the more than a hundred She creates a web of words – fearful, yearning, hyster- TBILISI 14.01.2017 tales that were sent in. The result is a musical and ical – as a safety net in her struggle for survival in the Tbilisi International Festival BRUSSELS visual mosaic in which Claron McFadden, singing, looming void. The gradual realisation that her lover www.tbilisiinternational.com www.riverjazz.be whispering and laughing, merges sorrowful, mischie- has made an irrevocable choice for someone else drives vous and cynical passages into one another. Each indi- her to despair, until the connection is literally broken 06.05.2017 15.01.2017 vidual secret has a universal dimension. Secrets shows off. The stage is designed as a mind-map in which the LIER TERNEUZEN in a poetic manner that these hidden thoughts link us props and chalked lines are the only remaining tangi- www.lierscultuurcentrum.be www.porgyenbess.nl all together. Claron McFadden and the trio give each ble evidence of a lost relationship. In an obscure, film- secret its own rhythm and musicality: melancholy, like space, the woman seems to be staging her own 17.01.2017 restrained, heart-rending or playful. This trio has for death and in an endless repetition tries obsessively CHERBOURG years been exploring the boundaries between cham- to keep her love alive. In the background, a female www.trident-scenenationale.com ber music, jazz and melancholically-tinged tapestries dancer represents the absent lover. The pianist and of sound, eschewing neither experiment nor impro- composer Jeroen Malaise assists Naomi in her inter- 19.01.2017 visation. In their collaboration with Claron McFadden, pretation and performance of Poulenc’s unique score, ENSCHEDE their delight in playing creates sparks on stage. and the director Wouter Van Looy coaches her in her www.wilminktheater.nl distracted monologue. 20.01.2017 26.01.2017 30.03.2017 HASSELT NANTERRE MOUSCRON www.ccha.be www.nanterre.fr www.centrecultureldemouscron.be

21.01.2017 28.01.2017 12 > 14.04.2017 TILBURG LEYDEN LYON www.theaterstilburg.nl www.hothousejazz.nl www.croix-rousse.com

Composers Tuur Florizoone, Michel Massot and Marine Horbaczewski Composer Francis Poulenc Author Jean Cocteau Director and set design Wouter Concept and vocals Claron McFadden Set and lighting design Peter Quasters Van Looy Lighting design Peter Quasters Costumes Lotte Stek Soprano Naomi Beeldens Chromatic accordion Tuur Florizoone Tuba and trombone Michel Massot Piano Jeroen Malaise Dancer Sheila Rojas / Cristina Henríquez Laurent Cello Marine Horbaczewski Dramaturge Tobias Kokkelmans

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant in association Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, JazzLab Series and Aventura Musica, with Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen. co-produced by Opera Days Rotterdam.

22 ON TOUR ON TOUR 23 LILITH LISTEN TO THE SILENCE

Claron McFadden’s first music-theatre project as a 10.08.2016 24.08.2016 Listen to the silence is an interactive performance for theatre-maker tells the tragic tale of Lilith, Adam’s first VARNA GRONINGEN children – and adults – that immerses you in the intri- wife, created simultaneously with him and on an equal Radar Festival Noorderzon guing musical world of John Cage (1912-1992). This footing. When she refuses to subject herself to him, dimitarbodurov.wix.com/radar-festival-2016 www.noorderzon.nl American philosopher-composer thoroughly over- he rejects her. Having been humiliated by Adam and turned the conventions of musical history with his abandoned by God, Lilith leaves Paradise and wanders 20 > 27.11.2016 poetry of freedom, chance and silence. In his view, endlessly in search of love, taking a countless number MANNHEIM everything we do is music. On the basis of his philos- of lovers but never able to forget Adam entirely. Festival Happy New Ears ophy, Listen to the Silence builds up a playful, imag- By combining various media and musical styles, www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de inary world inhabited by ungovernable objects such McFadden builds up a dramatic tension in which she, as mixers, music boxes, quacking ducks and rustling as the licentious Lilith, confronts Adam, who addresses plastic bags. Aided by projected images, the pianist her from a projection screen. The account of their Jeroen Malaise and actor Tjyying Liu guide the audi- failed relationship is larded with memories of their ence on a voyage of discovery in an unpredictable most intimate moments. Words of love become words forest full of sounds, to the point where a merry musical of regret, and desires they have never come to terms chaos unfolds. On the way, you discover that silence with end in accusations. Accompanied by the compos- is full of sounds and that your surroundings become er and pianist Dimitar Bodurov, Claron McFadden magical when you learn to listen to everyday sounds. impressively portrays this solitary woman who is both Or, like John Cage, you seek out sounds you have never vulnerable and assertive in her conviction. The sudden previously heard and like a real inventor compose death of Claron’s opposite number, Jeroen Willems, in your own musical landscape. December 2012, just a few months after the premiere, made Lilith a particularly moving document. “ Lilith should have been in the Bible.” “Fragile and adventurous.”

Claron McFadden, De Standaard, 2011 Theatermaker 2012

Concept, vocals and performer Claron McFadden Composer, pianist and performer Dimitar Bodurov Librettist Carola Luther Video Frans Weisz Set and lighting Composer John Cage Director and set design Wouter Van Looy design Tom Schenk Costumes Zoe Monti Actor and singer in video Jeroen Willems Director and video Letizia Renzini Performer Tjyying Liu Piano Jeroen Malaise

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, Holland Festival and Opera Days Rotterdam, Produced by Zonzo Compagnie, co -produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by Concertgebouw Brugge, Klarafestival and Korzo Producties. BigBang Festival, De Werf, Rataplan and Acht Brücken – Musik für Köln.

24 ON TOUR ON TOUR 25 AND YOU POLAR NIGHT MUST SUFFER

Because of its supposed anti-Semitic nature, Bach’s 11.09.2016 29.10.2016 On Sørøya, a remote Norwegian island far beyond St. John Passion is the most controversial of his Passions. WROCLAW HASSSELT the Arctic Circle, the polar night of the winter elim- The libretto combines the Bible story of the Passion Festival Wratislavia Cantans Festival Nordic night inates the distinction between day and night and with poetry, while in the music narrative recitatives www.nfm.wroclaw.pl www.ccha.be sudden snow-storms make it impossible to go outside. alternate with choruses. The result is intense and dra- Five artists from the collective Post uit Hessdalen – a matic. In And you must suffer, the director Pierre Audi 28 / 29.03.2017 03.11.2016 photographer, a video film-maker, a theatre-maker, brings Bach’s themes up to date. He sets his reflections AMSTERDAM ANTWERP a musician and a lighting designer – retreated there on suffering and compassion against a background Festival Opera Forward www.villanella.be for several weeks to examine our experience of time of the fanaticism and moral and democratic deficit www.muziekgebouw.nl and our desire for tranquillity and stillness, far from of our times. The initial inspiration for his sober stage 03.02.2017 our hectic world. In the audiovisual production Polar design was Viae Crucis, in which the artist Wim Delvoye KORTRIJK Night, they reconstruct what it means to liberate your- sees through everything using X-rays and thoroughly www.schouwburgkortrijk.be self entirely from time, without daylight, clock or any undermines religious truth. The Palestinian-Israeli familiar frame of reference, and what happens to your composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi moulds the fiery words 20.05.2017 mind when the loss of day and night deprives you of a of The Arab Apocalypse by the Lebanese poetess Etel ROTTERDAM solid foothold, all on the basis of extracts from diaries Adnan into a musical form in which Arabic influences Opera Days Rotterdam and their own films and photos. Polar Night is also a are subtly absorbed into contemporary sounds. Our www.operadagenrotterdam.nl musical voyage: the voice of the versatile soprano resident composer Annelies Van Parys has written Claron McFadden contributes a many-layered sound- a short prologue and epilogue in which noise and track packed with sound experiments. In the darkness, silence represent the immeasurability of love and guided by the narrator’s voice, the images of nature loss. An all-embracing work of art with the medita- “ Theatre and shimmering soundscapes lead the audience on a tive intensity of sublime verses. as a ritual” trip into timelessness. De Volkskrant, 2016 “A plunge into Composers J.S. Bach / Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Annelies Van Parys Musical director Andreas Spering Director (mise-en-espace) Pierre Audi a night without end.” Visuals Wim Delvoye Set and costume design Roel Van Berckelaer Video Mirjam Devriendt and Vincent Dunoyer Lighting design Peter Quasters De Standaard, 2015 Evangelist Jakob Pilgram Christ Dominik Köninger Soprano Grace Davidson Alto Benno Schachtner Tenor Magnus Staveland Bass Tomáš Král Chorus NFM Choir Ensemble B’Rock Orchestra

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant and B’Rock Orchestra, co -produced by Klarafestival, Concept and creation Stijn Grupping, Liesbet Grupping, Frederik Meulyzer, Ine Van Baelen, Kaaitheater, De Munt/La Monnaie, Wroclaw National Forum of Music and the Polish Institute. Lucas Van Haesbroeck Singer in video Claron McFadden Voice -off Geert Van Rampelberg With a composition commissioned from Samir Odeh -Tamimi by Klarafestival / Flanders Festival Brussels and from Annelies Van Parys by Muziektheater Transparant. Produced by Post uit Hessdalen, co -produced by Muziektheater Transparant and Wintervuur.

26 ON TOUR ON TOUR 27 KINGS OF WAR RUHE

It is the view of the director Ivo van Hove that the way 03 > 06.11.2016 23.02.2017 RUHE premiered during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts the notion of leadership is shaped is one of the major NEW YORK BERLIN in 2007. It then toured the world and now we are revi- challenges of the decades to come. In Kings of War, he www.bam.org www.radialsystem.de ving it for the tenth anniversary of the premiere. RUHE combines three of Shakespeare’s history plays – Henry V, is based on the notorious SS, a book of interviews Henry VI and Richard III – to form an explosive com- 13 > 15.04.2017 25.02.2017 published by the Dutch artists Armando and Hans pilation on the theme of power and responsibility. On 18 / 19.04.2017 GHENT Sleutelaar in the 1960s, in which Dutch men and women the basis of the successive kings, Henry V, an ambitious 21 / 22.04.2017 www.debijloke.be anonymously tell of their voluntary entry into the SS. soldier, Henry VI, a cry-baby with no backbone, and 25 / 26.04.2017 In an intimate setting, two actors sitting amongst the Richard III, a power-drunk intriguer, van Hove out- 28 / 29.04.2017 audience give shape to the human element in their lines the way power is linked to the character of the AMSTERDAM discourse, which makes these accounts even more con- ruler and to the purpose for which it is employed. The www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl fusing and confrontational. A male chorus comprising intrigues between the kings and their retinues of coun- members of Collegium Vocale Gent performs conso- sellors and relatives are played out in an underground ling music by Schubert in the form of harmonious part- bunker and a labyrinth behind the stage that is made songs. The melancholy yearning for tranquillity in the visible to the audience on video screens. The political music contrasts sharply with the painful reality: games of manipulation, conspiracy and murder also beauty and horror are not necessarily mutually ex- reverberate in the dramatic score composed by Eric clusive. An epilogue by Annelies Van Parys, which de- Sleichim. After an international tour and a series of constructs Schubert’s Ruhe, schönstes Glück der Erde performances in Paris, this successful production will to form a dissonant lament, and a silent but gruesome once again be touring in the 2016-17 season. video by David Claerbout, both refer to a seemingly buried past that is still compellingly topical.

“An exceptional “RUHE spreads disquiet and theatre marathon.” Johan Thielemans, Cobra, 2015 provides consolation.” De Standaard, 2007

Composer Eric Sleichim Author William Shakespeare Director Ivo van Hove Set and lighting design Jan Versweyveld Video Tal Yarden Costume design An D’Huys Actors Alwin Pulinckx, Aus Greidanus jr., Bart Slegers, Chris Nietvelt, Eelco Smits, Fred Composers Franz Schubert / Annelies Van Parys Authors Armando and Hans Sleutelaar Goessens, Hans Kesting, Hélène Devos, Hugo Koolschijn, Janni Goslinga, Kitty Courbois, Text adapted by Tom Jansen and Josse De Pauw Conceived and directed by Josse De Ramsey Nasr, Robert de Hoog, Harm Duco Schut Pauw Set design Herman Sorgeloos Visuals David Claerbout Actors Dirk Roofthooft and Singer Steve Dugardin Ensemble BL!NDMAN [brass] Dramaturge Peter Van Kraaij Carly Wijs Ensemble Collegium Vocale Gent

Produced by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant, BL!NDMAN, Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, Holland Festival, The Barbican, Théâtre National de Chaillot and Wiener Festwochen. co-produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Zeeland Nazomerfestival.

28 ON TOUR ON TOUR 29 PRIVATE VIEW ROMAN TRAGEDIES

For her first opera, Annelies Van Parys chose to take 11 / 12.03.2017 17 > 19.03.2017 When it was first performed in 2007, Roman Tragedies as her starting point Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Rear BERGEN LONDON made a huge impression. The director Ivo van Hove Window, about a murder in a block of flats. Her collab- Borealis Festival www.barbican.org.uk presented three ‘political’ plays by Shakespeare – Corio- oration with the librettist Jen Hadfield, scenarist Gaea www.borealisfestival.no lanus, Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra – together Schoeters and director Tom Creed led to the creation of in a six-hour performance on the subject of our visual a pioneering opera that won several awards. Private culture, our contemporary political order and the View breaks with tradition, above all in the video in- mechanisms that underlie them. The rise and fall of stallation by the Collective 33⅓, a visual trip based a politician is shown three times. The performance is on found footage from old black & white films: it is conceived as a television show in which the audience not the singers who drive the ambiguous storyline sits in the middle of the political arena, and is able to forward as autonomous protagonists, but the video move around and follow events in Rome live on stage projections. Van Parys’ rich score, written for an orig- or on screens inside and outside the auditorium. In the inal ensemble including percussion, accordion and orchestra pit, two members of BL!NDMAN represent electric guitar, is packed with surprising turns and the threat of war with their ominous percussion. The subtle passages. The video images, singers and music manipulation, murder and war taking place in Rome together create an atmosphere of paranoia and alien- are regularly interrupted by advertisements and news- ation in which tension and humour merge, while also flashes of current events. What is real? What is fake? playing with the spectator’s perceptions. Private View “ Thrilling game On the political stage, everything is simply a sham. turns its gaze to our major cities, where thousands of us ‘live together’ on isolated islands, our neigh- of expectations.” bours remain strangers and fleeting glances into other people’s living rooms soon lead to prejudice. Volkskrant, 2015 “A masterly tour de force by Ivo van Hove.”Het Parool, 2007

Composer Annelies Van Parys Librettist Jen Hadfield Scenarist Gaea Schoeters Musical director Etienne Siebens Director Tom Creed Composer Eric Sleichim Author William Shakespeare Director Ivo van Hove Video and set concept Collective 33 ¹/³ Ensemble Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart Set design Jan Versweyveld Video Tal Yarden Costume design Lies van Assche Music performed by BL!NDMAN Actors Alwin Pulinckx, Bart Slegers, Chris Nietvelt, Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co -produced by Opera Days Rotterdam, Asko|Schönberg, Eelco Smits, Fred Goessens, Frieda Pittoors, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Hans Kesting, Concertgebouw Brugge, National Opera Bergen, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Deutsche Hélène Devos, Hugo Koolschijn, Janni Goslinga, Marieke Heebink, Maria Kraakman Oper Berlin, 33 ¹/³ Collective. With a composition commissioned from Annelies Van Parys by Dramaturges Alexander Schreuder, Bart Van den Eynde and Jan Peter Gerrits Muziektheater Transparant and Kunsthuis Opera Vlaanderen. With a libretto commissioned from Jen Hadfield by National Opera Bergen. FEDORA – Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera 2014. Produced by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, co -produced by Muziektheater Transparant, SABAM Award 2015. MTN Award 2015. Holland Festival, BL!NDMAN, Kaaitheater and De Munt/La Monnaie.

30 ON TOUR ON TOUR 31 LE COUPEUR D’EAU

Le coupeur d'eau is based on Marguerite Duras’ short 23.03.2017 story of the same name, in which she zooms in on a HERENTALS tragic but minor incident: the collective suicide of a www.schaliken.be family following a visit from a water company official to cut off their water supply. In just a few pages, the 22.04.2017 author meticulously outlines the heat of the summer, BRUSSELS the family’s poverty, and the indifference of the village www.flagey.be community and the company official, who abandon a woman and her young children without the slightest compassion. The actor Dirk Roofthooft became fasci- nated by the tale and sought out the story behind the facts. Who was the man who turned off the water? Was he aware of the consequences of his action? In this compelling monologue, Roofthooft gives the man a voice. He is a broken man looking back and trying to clear his conscience. Together with the saxophonist Piet Rebel, the musician and sound designer Diederik De Cock on drums and guitar provides an explosive sound setting. Raw tones alternate with subtle soundscapes, translating the feelings of emptiness, rage and shame into sound.

“The first few seconds set the adrenaline flowing through your body.” De Morgen, 2013

Composer Diederik De Cock in association with Piet Rebel Authors Marguerite Duras / Dirk Roofthooft Conceived and directed by Dirk Roofthooft and Diederik De Cock Actor, lyricist and video Dirk Roofthooft Sound design Diederik De Cock Guitar and drums Diederik De Cock Saxophone Piet Rebel

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by deSingel and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg. The series of images was made by the video artist Wim Catrysse in the Russian miners’ community in Barentsburg (Norway, October 2015) for the production 'Earth diver'.

32 ON TOUR

TRANSLAB

In translab, Muziektheater Transparant opens its doors to young makers of music theatre and offers them support, training and opportunities for creation, all based at our Matterhorn workspace. In this way we make a long-term commitment to a new generation of performing artists and put them in touch with inspiring artists who act as their coach.

* As from 2016, the youth opera, an annual summer project in which youngsters between 15 and 25 years create a production, will alternate between the classical and non-classical repertoires. The source of inspiration for the 2016 production, ParadiseHell, will be the Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch.

* Muziektheater Transparant has concluded an agreement with the Antwerp Conservatoire to guide students in the creation of a multidisciplinary project. Following Naomi Beeldens’ La Voix humaine, in 2016 we shall be collaborating with Ellen Van Herck, and also Lissa Meyvis and Thomas Eeckhout. In 2017 new projects will follow.

* Following Polar Night by the young collective Post uit Hessdalen, Transparant selected the project Medea- material by lab.oratorium from a series of entries by young theatre-makers. It will be produced at Matter- horn in autumn 2016.

TRANSLAB 41 WINDISCHGRÄTZ PARADISEHELL

The German priest and poet Edouard Mörike (1804- 12 / 13.05.2016 13 / 14.08.2016 The annual youth opera will for the first time bring to- 1875) tried to escape the dullness of his profession by BERCHEM ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH gether musicians trained in classical and non-classical writing about animals that talk, mermaids, immortal Zaal 7 Theaterfestival Boulevard music. In ParadiseHell, twenty youngsters will create knights and love. The Austrian composer Hugo Wolf www.transparant.be/translab www.festivalboulevard.nl a music-theatre production under the guidance of set fifty-three of these poems to music. Through this an international team of outstanding musicians and work he became one of the most important composers 19 > 21.08.2016 theatre-makers. The production is part of the grand of songs in the German language area. The singer Lissa ANTWERP commemorative project for the 500th anniversary of Meyvis and pianist Thomas Eeckhout are writing www.desingel.be the death of the Dutch Renaissance painter Hierony- a new story based on a selection of Mörike songs. mus Bosch (1450-1516). The enigmatic nature of his Windischgrätz, the village where Hugo Wolf was born, work, resulting from his innovative visual idiom full is the name of the imaginary village where this pro- of monstrous figures and fantastic scenes, inspired duction is set. Wouter Van Looy is the coach for this the creators in their study of our double morality and graduation project at the Antwerp Conservatoire. the moral quandary we find ourselves in. Founded on each individual’s own talent, a new musical language is formulated at the intersection of such varied styles as pop, 15th-century chants, contemporary classical and improvisation. The singer and violinist Liesa Van der Aa and the cellist and composer Michael Rauter, artis- ABENDROT tic head of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop from Berlin, will provide the musical accompaniment for ParadiseHell. They will be collaborating with Bianca van der Schoot and Suzan Boogaerdt, the artistic leaders of Ro Theater. They are among the most contro- When Richard Strauss wrote his Vier letzte Lieder in 21 / 22.06.2016 versial theatre-makers in the Netherlands and have 1948, they were to become his musical testament. ANTWERP caused a furore with their highly visual productions. Warmth and resignation resound throughout this Theater Zuidpool composition, which is based on the writings of Herman www.transparant.be/tranlab Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff in which death is the main theme. For her graduation project at the Antwerp Conservatoire, the soprano Ellen Vanherck is performing these masterpieces of German post- romanticism together with Maurice Delage's Quatre poèmes Hindous, a work from the early 20th-century French repertoire that touches on the same themes. Ellen is being coached by Wouter Van Looy in a perfor- Musical directors Michael Rauter and Liesa Van der Aa mance that explores the boundaries between music, Directors Bianca van der Schoot and Suzan Boogaerdt poetry and art. She is creating a multimedia setting with video images by Chris Meulemans. Her mother Els Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co -produced by Theaterfestival Boulevard, Janssen accompanies her on the piano. Jheronimus Bosch 500, deSingel and Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen.

42 TRANSLAB TRANSLAB 43 MEDEAMATERIAL MATTERHONGER

Intrigued by the character of Medea and on the basis 01 / 02.12.2016 10.02.2017 In the 2015-16 season, Matterhonger was launched as a of Heiner Müller’s poem Verkommenes Ufer / Medea- BORGERHOUT MATTERHONGER #2 recurring event. As from the first season, this format, a material / Landschaft mit Argonauten, the young Matterhorn glimpse into the inner workings of the creative process, theatre-makers of lab.oratorium are examining our www.transparant.be/translab 07.04.2017 turned out to be a direct hit that demanded repeti- globalised world, where everyone is under non-stop MATTERHONGER #3 tion. Matterhonger unites artists and the audience in pressure to extend their own limits. Going against BORGERHOUT a shared curiosity and it all takes place on a festive, prevailing interpretations, they detach Medea from Matterhorn food-oriented evening at our own rehearsal room. the question of guilt and shift the focus to the reasons www.transparant.be Actors and musicians present excerpts from a produc- for her deeds, as a social figure. What gives anyone tion in the make, assisted by academics, opinion- the right to judge who is to be excluded or killed? Do makers and/or experts who want to share their views knowledge and moral action go hand in hand? Heiner on the theme. Müller’s writings lend themselves to a range of interpretations, which enables both reality and its repre- Enrol at Following on from the rehearsals for Nightshade: sentation to be questioned. [email protected] Aubergine [p. 10] and The Diary of the One Who Disap- Doors open at 19:00 peared [p. 14] we are organising Matterhonger #2, on Starting time 19:30 the topic of migration. Ecstasy will be the theme of Price €25 Matterhonger #3, as a foretaste of Revelations [p. 20], (including food and drink) which is part of Opera21.

Author Heiner Müller Conceived and directed by Aïda Gabriëls Musical arrangements by Astrid Stockman and Innerwoud Medea Astrid Stockman Double bass Innerwoud Movement artist Lieselot Vanderroost Speaker Dale Duesing Dramaturge Ylona Supèr

44 TRANSLAB EVENT 45 MATTERHORN OPERA21

Since 2014, Muziektheater Transparant has shared a 16 > 23.12.2016 18 > 29.04.2017 With its fifth presentation in the spring of 2017, the workspace called Matterhorn in Borgerhout with de BORGERHUIS ANTWERP Opera21 festival will bring its biennial cycle to an end. Roovers, Laika and kunstZ. All four of these compa- BORGERHOUT Festival Opera21 From then on it will be an annual festival. In 2018 it nies want to relate to our increasingly diverse society Matterhorn www.opera21.be will take place in Ghent and Bruges, and in 2019 in on the basis of a common commitment. The location www.matterhornvzw.be Antwerp once again. By stimulating new creations, of Matterhorn was thus in part determined by its sur- Opera21 is investing even more in the future of music roundings, a multicultural neighbourhood. In this MAY 2017 theatre. At the same time, its international nature regard, the collaboration with kunstZ, an organisation TERLOPLEINFEEST will be boosted and it will open up more to young that trains and coaches performing artists of different BORGERHOUT and exploratory work. Opera21 has a wide-ranging origins, is very important. Matterhorn programme that breaks down the boundaries of music www.matterhornvzw.be theatre: from opera to hybrid, scenic experiments, Every year there is a convivial neighbourhood party installations, performances and visual concerts. The on Terloplein, with concerts, delicious exotic food and festival offers opportunities to producers and compa- activities for children. The companies that use Matter- nies not catered to by its initiators, Opera Vlaan- horn add theatre to this mixture, both on the square deren, Muziektheater Transparant, LOD music thea- and inside the building. tre and deSingel. Literature will be a dominant theme at the next festival, with work by such big names as As from 2016, the Matterhorn npo undertakes to Erich Maria Remarque, Can Xue, Louis Paul Boon, organise the biennial Borgerhuis festival. For the first Raymond Queneau and Jean Genet. See you in Ghent one, we invited Silke Melis and Gwen Van Erp of the and Antwerp in April 2017. ROESTgroup, a young theatre collective that has made ‘donation theatre’ for neighbourhood projects During Opera21, Muziektheater Transparant will be its trade mark. They will call on the local residents to staging three powerful productions: Janacek’s The donate something – a story, a photo, themselves – and Diary of the One Who Disappeared, directed by Ivo then put it all together to create a revue. Matterhorn van Hove [p. 14], Revelations, a joint project by the provides artistic, production and logistic support composer Wim Henderickx and director Wouter Van for the whole project and will be the beating heart of Looy on the visions of Hadewijch [p. 20] and Night- Borgerhuis: a place for encounters, rehearsal and of shade: Aubergine, the new project by the singer Claron course a dazzling closing event. McFadden [p. 10].

www.matterhornvzw.be www.opera21.be

46 WORKSPACE FESTIVAL 47 SONGBOOK

The Great American Songbookis the canon of the most 05.02.2017 important jazz and light music of the twentieth century. ANTWERP The songs, also referred to as standards, originate main- De Zondagen van Rockox ly from Broadway musicals, music theatre and Holly- www.rockoxhuis.be wood musical films from the 1920s to the 1950s. The well-known composers whose works have become standards include George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Richard Rodgers, and the renowned performers of these songs were Frank Sinatra, Al Jolson, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald and many others. During the crisis years of the 1930s and during the two world wars, these songs offered the hope of better times to come. They also set the tone at times of victory and economic growth. The positive values and RUHE optimistic attitudes heard in these songs made them into the soundtrack for American life. Now, inspired by this Great American Songbook, Claron McFadden and Tuur Florizoone have compiled their own repertoire of songs, called Songbook. The Rockoxhuis Mu- seum has invited them to perform a special concert on one of the Rockox Sundays.

Singer Claron McFadden Accordionist Tuur Florizoone

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant in association with KBC.

48 CONCERT SECRETS PR IVATE VIEW AND YOU MUST SUFFER MATTERHONGER KINGS OF WAR INFO

You can become a member of Muziektheater Transparant by transferring € 25 (ordinary member) or € 120 (supporting member) to the account with the number BE21 5230 8032 8203 stating ‘Membership fee 2016-2017’. If you become a member you will be invited to avant -premieres, supporting members to premieres.

Muziektheater Transparant receives a grant from the Flemish Authorities and is supported by Oskard D Creative Services.

Muziektheater Transparant is a member of the AKO, OKO, ITI, IETM and Assistej Belgium. Muziektheater Transparant is a non profit organisation.

Coordination Séverine Windels, An Stevens Material supplied by Guy Coolen, An Stevens, Wouter Van Looy, Séverine Windels Translations Gregory Ball Graphic design by Kurt Cornelis – www.sfumato.be Website Oskar D Creative Services – www.oskard.com Printed by Stevens Print – www.stevensprint.be

Picture references: Secrets › Willy Schuyten | RUHE › Herman Sorgeloos | Private View › Koen Broos And you must suffer › Koen Broos | Matterhonger › Wouter Van Looy Kings of War › Jan Versweyveld | La Voix humaine › Jill Bertels

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GENERAL AND ARTISTIC DIRECTOR TECHNICIANS ↓ |05|2016 13 PARADISEHELL ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH Guy Coolen Anne Van Es THEATERFESTIVAL [email protected] 12 WINDISCHGRÄTZ BERCHEM BOULEVAR D ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Peter Quasters ZAAL 7 www.festivalboulevard.nl Guy Coolen [email protected] www.transparant.be/translab 14 PARADISEHELL ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH [email protected] 13 WINDISCHGRÄTZ BERCHEM THEATERFESTIVAL Wouter Van Looy INTERNATIONAL SALES ZAAL 7 BOULEVAR D [email protected] Maja Lozic www.transparant.be/translab www.festivalboulevard.nl [email protected] 21 SECRETS ROTTERDAM 19 PARADISEHELL ANTWERP BUSINESS MANAGER OPERA DAYS ROTTERDAM DESINGEL – www.desingel.be Jan Dewispelaere SALES IN FRANCE www.operadagenrotterdam.nl 20 PARADISEHELL ANTWERP [email protected] Laurent Langlois 22 SECRETS ROTTERDAM DESINGEL – www.desingel.be [email protected] OPERA DAYS ROTTERDAM 21 PARADISEHELL ANTWERP DRAMATURGE www.operadagenrotterdam.nl DESINGEL – www.desingel.be Tobias Kokkelmans RECEPTION 28 LA VOIX HUMAINE ROTTERDAM 24 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE [email protected] Goedele De Veuster OPERA DAYS ROTTERDAM GRONINGEN [email protected] www.operadagenrotterdam.nl NOORDERZON PERFORMING PERSONNEL MANAGER ARTS FESTIVAL Caroline Gauquier GENERAL MEETING www.noorderzon.nl [email protected] Eddy Frans - chairman / ↓ |06|2016 Yasmina Boudia - vice-chairman / BOOKKEEPING Pablo Fernandez / Katrien Laporte / Olivier 04 SECRETS HEERENVEEN ↓ |09|2016 Martine Werbroeck Onghena / Bert Peeters / Annick Schramme ORANJEWOUD FESTIVAL [email protected] www.oranjewoudfestival.nl 11 AND YOU MUST SUFFER WROCLAW BOARD OF DIRECTORS 21 ABENDROT ANTWERP WRATISLAVIA CANTANS PRESS AND COMMUNICATION Eddy Frans / Yasmina Boudia / THEATER ZUIDPOOL www.nfm.wroclaw.pl Patricia Van de Velde Bart Doucet / Dirk de Kort / www.transparant.be/translab 21 EARTH DIVER ESSEN [email protected] Pablo Fernandez / Katrien Laporte / 22 ABENDROT ANTWERP RUHRTRIENNALE Olivier Onghena / Annick Schramme / THEATER ZUIDPOOL www.ruhrtriennale.de COMMUNICATION AND PRODUCTION Katia Segers / Jan Thomaes / www.transparant.be/translab 22 EARTH DIVER ESSEN Ruth Sarens Axel Vervoordt / Bert Peeters RUHRTRIENNALE [email protected] www.ruhrtriennale.de An Stevens ↓ |08|2016 23 EARTH DIVER ESSEN [email protected] MUZIEKTHEATER TRANSPARANT VZW RUHRTRIENNALE Albrecht Rodenbachstraat 21 bus 1 05 SECRETS LONDON www.ruhrtriennale.de PRODUCTION MANAGERS 2140 Borgerhout TÊTE À TÊTE – THE OPERA 24 EARTH DIVER ESSEN Annik Laruelle T + 32 (0)3 22 517 02 FESTIVAL RUHRTRIENNALE [email protected] [email protected] www.tete-a-tete.org.uk www.ruhrtriennale.de Eglantine Möller www.transparant.be 10 LILITH VARNA 28 LA VOIX HUMAINE TBILISI [email protected] BTW BE 0417 551 049 R ADAR FESTIVAL TBILISI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL dimitarbodurov.wix.com/radar-festival-2016 www.tbilisiinternational.com

58 Calendar 2016 59 29 LA VOIX HUMAINE TBILISI 25 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM 29 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 26 SECRETS NANTERRE TBILISI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS LUZERNER THEATER MAISON DE LA MUSIQUE www.tbilisiinternational.com www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de www.luzernertheater.ch www.nanterre.fr > Culture 26 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM 28 SECRETS LEYDEN FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS HOT HOUSE ↓ |10|2016 www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de ↓ |01|2017 www.hothousejazz.nl 27 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM 15 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS 02 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE MATTERHORN www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de LUZERNER THEATER ↓ |02|2017 www.transparant.be/translab www.luzernertheater.ch 16 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT 04 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 03 POLAR NIGHT KORTRIJK MATTERHORN ↓ |12|2016 LUZERNER THEATER SCHOUWBURG KORTRIJK www.transparant.be/translab www.luzernertheater.ch www.schouwburgkortrijk.be 29 POLAR NIGHT HASSELT 01 MEDEAMATERIAL BORGERHOUT 06 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 03 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE NORDIC NIGHT – www.ccha.be MATTERHORN LUZERNER THEATER LUZERNER THEATER www.transparant.be/translab www.luzernertheater.ch www.luzernertheater.ch 02 MEDEAMATERIAL BORGERHOUT 08 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 05 SONGBOOK ANTWERP ↓ |11|2016 MATTERHORN LUZERNER THEATER DE ZONDAGEN VAN ROCKOX www.transparant.be/translab www.luzernertheater.ch www.rockoxhuis.be 03 POLAR NIGHT ANTWERP 16 ROEST BORGERHOUT 12 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 08 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE DE STUDIO – www.villanella.be BORGERHUIS LUZERNER THEATER LUZERNER THEATER 03 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK www.matterhornvzw.be www.luzernertheater.ch www.luzernertheater.ch BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 17 ROEST BORGERHOUT 12 SECRETS ANTWERP 10 MATTERHONGER #2 BORGERHOUT www.bam.org BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be THEATER ZUIDPOOL MATTERHORN – www.transparant.be 04 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK 17 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE www.zuidpool.be 10 WENDE (TRY-OUT) DORDRECHT BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC LUZERNER THEATER 14 SECRETS BRUSSELS ENERGIEHUIS www.bam.org www.luzernertheater.ch RIVERJAZZ www.energiehuis.nl 05 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK 18 ROEST BORGERHOUT www.riverjazz.be 16 WENDE (TRY-OUT) NIJVERDAL BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be 15 SECRETS TERNEUZEN THEATER NIJVERDAL www.bam.org 19 ROEST BORGERHOUT PORGY & BESS www.zinintheater.nl 06 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be www.porgyenbess.nl 17 WENDE (TRY-OUT) MIDDELBURG BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC 19 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 17 SECRETS CHERBOURG SCHOUWBURG MIDDELBURG www.bam.org LUZERNER THEATER LE TRIDENT www.zeelandtheaters.nl 20 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM www.luzernertheater.ch www.trident-scenenationale.com 18 WENDE (TRY-OUT) BERGEN OP ZOOM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS 20 ROEST BORGERHOUT 19 SECRETS ENSCHEDE GEBOUW T – www.gebouw-t.nl www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be WILMINKTHEATER 20 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE BRUGES 21 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM 21 ROEST BORGERHOUT MUZIEKCENTRUM CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be ENSCHEDE www.concertgebouw.be www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de 22 ROEST BORGERHOUT www.wilminktheater.nl 22 WENDE (TRY-OUT) DOETICHEM 22 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be 20 SECRETS HASSELT SCHOUWBURG AMPHION FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS 23 ROEST BORGERHOUT CULTUURCENTRUM HASSELT www.amphion.nl www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be www.ccha.be 22 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 23 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM 23 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 21 SECRETS TILBURG LUZERNER THEATER FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS LUZERNER THEATER THEATERS TILBURG www.luzernertheater.ch www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de www.luzernertheater.ch www.theaterstilburg.nl 23 WENDE (TRY-OUT) LELYSTAD 24 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM 26 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE 21 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE AGORA THEATER- EN FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS LUZERNER THEATER LUZERNER THEATER CONGRESCENTRUM www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de www.luzernertheater.ch www.luzernertheater.ch www.agora-lelystad.nl

60 Calendar 2016 Calendar 2017 61 23 RUHE BERLIN 12 PRIVATE VIEW BERGEN 29 WENDE BREDA 13 WENDE DELFT RADIALSYSTEM BOREALISFESTIVAL CHASSÉ THEATER THEATER DE VESTE www.radialsystem.de www.borealisfestival.no www.chasse.nl www.theaterdeveste.nl 24 WENDE (TRY-OUT) MEPPEL 16 WENDE THE HAGUE 30 SECRETS MOUSCRON 13 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM SCHOUWBURG OGTEROP PAARD VAN TROJE CENTRE CULTUREL DE MOUSCRON STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.schouwburgogterop.nl www.paard.nl www.centrecultureldemouscron.be www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl 25 RUHE GHENT 17 3ME BRUGES 30 WENDE ZWOLLE 14 SECRETS LYON DE BIJLOKE KLARAFESTIVAL ODEON – www.zwolsetheaters.nl THÉÂTRE DE LA CROIX-ROUSSE www.debijloke.be www.concertgebouw.be 31 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE www.croix-rousse.com 26 WENDE (TRY-OUT) KAMPEN 17 WENDE THE HAGUE AMSTERDAM 14 WENDE UTRECHT STADSGEHOORZAAL PAARD VAN TROJE OSTADETHEATER STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT www.stadsgehoorzaalkampen.nl www.paard.nl www.ostadeadam.nl www.stadsschouwburg-utrecht.nl 28 WENDE (TRY-OUT) HOOFDDORP 17 ROMAN TRAGEDIES LONDON 31 WENDE EINDHOVEN 14 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM SCHOUWBURG DE MEERSE THE BARBICAN PARKTHEATER STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.demeerse.nl www.barbican.org.uk www.parktheater.nl www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl 18 AQUARIUS’ DREAM ANTWERP 15 WENDE HAARLEM ELISABETHCENTER STADSCHOUWBURG HAARLEM ↓ |03|2017 www.elisabethcenter.be ↓ |04|2017 www.theater-haarlem.nl 18 WENDE OSS 15 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM 02 WENDE AMSTERDAM THEATER DE LIEVEKAMP 01 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM PARADISO www.lievekamp.nl AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl www.paradiso.nl 18 ROMAN TRAGEDIES LONDON OSTADETHEATER 18 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM 03 WENDE VEENENDAAL THE BARBICAN www.ostadeadam.nl STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM DE LAMPEGIET www.barbican.org.uk 01 WENDE MAASTRICHT www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl www.lampegiet.nl 19 3ME ANTWERPEN AINSI 19 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM 05 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE KLARAFESTIVAL www.theateraanhetvrijthof.nl STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM LUZERNER THEATER www.desingel.be 02 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl www.luzernertheater.ch 19 ROMAN TRAGEDIES LONDON AMSTERDAM 21 REVELATIONS ANTWERP 09 WENDE HOORN THE BARBICAN OSTADETHEATER OPERA21 SCHOUWBURG HET PARK www.barbican.org.uk www.ostadeadam.nl www.desingel.be www.hetpark.nl 22 WENDE ALKMAAR 07 MATTERHONGER #3 BORGERHOUT 21 WENDE ‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH 10 WENDE GRONINGEN THEATER DE VEST MATTERHORN VERKADEFABRIEK DE OOSTERPOORT www.theaterdevest.nl www.transparant.be www.verkadefabriek.nl www.de-oosterpoort.nl 23 WENDE LEEUWARDEN 07 WENDE APPELDOORN 21 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM 11 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO STADSSCHOUWBURG DE HARMONIE ORPHEUS STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM DISAPPEARED BRUSSELS www.harmonie.nl www.orpheus.nl www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl KLARAFESTIVAL 23 LE COUPEUR D'EAU HERENTALS 08 WENDE ENSCHEDE 22 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO www.kaaitheater.be ’T SCHALIKEN DE KLEINE WILLEM DISAPPEARED ANTWERP 11 PRIVATE VIEW BERGEN www.schaliken.be www.wilminktheater.nl OPERA21 – www.operaballet.be BOREALISFESTIVAL 25 WENDE DRACHTEN 11 WENDE ROTTERDAM 22 LE COUPEUR D'EAU BRUSSELS www.borealisfestival.no SCHOUWBURG DE LAWEI LUXOR THEATER FLAGEY 12 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO www.lawei.nl www.luxortheater.nl www.flagey.be DISAPPEARED BRUSSELS 28 AND YOU MUST SUFFER AMSTERDAM 12 SECRETS LYON 22 WENDE ARNHEM KLARAFESTIVAL OPERA FORWARD THÉÂTRE DE LA CROIX-ROUSSE STADSTHEATER www.kaaitheater.be www.muziekgebouw.nl www.croix-rousse.com www.arnhemsepodia.nl 12 WENDE LEYDEN 29 AND YOU MUST SUFFER AMSTERDAM 13 SECRETS LYON 22 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM LEIDSE SCHOUWBURG OPERA FORWARD THÉÂTRE DE LA CROIX-ROUSSE STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadspodia.nl www.muziekgebouw.nl www.croix-rousse.com www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl

62 Calendar 2017 Calendar 2017 63 23 REVELATIONS ANTWERP 06 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO OPERA21 DISAPPEARED LONDON www.desingel.be ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 25 REVELATIONS MALINES www.roh.org.uk FESTIVAL VAN VLAANDEREN 06 LA VOIX HUMAINE LIER MECHELEN LIERS CULTUURCENTRUM www.mechelenhoortstemmen.be www.lierscultuurcentrum.be 25 WENDE LOUVAIN 07 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO 30CC DISAPPEARED LONDON www.30cc.be ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 25 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM www.roh.org.uk STADSSCHOUWBURG 08 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO AMSTERDAM DISAPPEARED LONDON www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 26 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM www.roh.org.uk STADSSCHOUWBURG 09 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO AMSTERDAM DISAPPEARED LONDON www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl ROYAL OPERA HOUSE 28 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM www.roh.org.uk STADSSCHOUWBURG 12 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO AMSTERDAM DISAPPEARED ROTTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM 29 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE www.operadagenrotterdam.nl ANTWERP 13 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO OPERA21 – www.desingel.be DISAPPEARED ROTTERDAM 29 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM MATTERHORN www.operadagenrotterdam.nl www.transparant.be/translab 13 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE 29 WENDE GOUDA ROTTERDAM DE GOUDSE SCHOUWBURG OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.goudseschouwburg.nl www.operadagenrotterdam.nl 29 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM 14 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE STADSSCHOUWBURG ROTTERDAM AMSTERDAM OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl www.operadagenrotterdam.nl 30 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT 20 REVELATIONS ROTTERDAM MATTERHORN OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.transparant.be/translab www.operadagenrotterdam.nl 30 WENDE AMSTERDAM 20 POLAR NIGHT ROTTERDAM PARADISO – www.paradiso.nl OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.operadagenrotterdam.nl 21 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO ↓ |05|2017 DISAPPEARED AMSTERDAM MUZIEKGEBOUW AAN HET IJ 05 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO www.muziekgebouw.nl DISAPPEARED LONDON 22 WENDE ANTWERP ROYAL OPERA HOUSE ANTWERPSE KLEPPERS www.roh.org.uk www.toneelhuis.be

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