With Haydn's three oratorios (Die Schöpfung,Die JahreszeitenandDie Sieben letzten Worte) as a starting point, the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (NBE) created a trilogy with Flemish writer Bart Moeyaert: eerst there wasThe Creation(2004), then cameThe Paradise (2010), and withHeaventhe cycle was completed in 2015.
At October the Blazers and Bart Moeyaert will tour again with The Creation, the first part of this successful musical theatre trilogy. During this performance, Bart Moeyaert (winner of the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award 2019, the 'Nobel Prize for Children's Literature') the story using a self-written text to this ancient, but never performed this way, music by Haydn. The try-out fromThe Creation takes place on 30 September at Podium Mozaïek (sold out) and the tour then takes in venues in Haarlem (sold out), Meppel, Ede, Enschede, Heerlen and Amsterdam. A second tour will follow from 3 to 13 March 2021.
Under the title Whole life its recently The Creation, The Paradise and The Sky for brought together for the first time in a book, with special illustrations by Peter Van den Ende.
Playlist The Creation in 2020
WO 30 SEP AMSTERDAM PODIUM MOZAÏEK (sold out)
DO 01 OKT HAARLEMPHILHARMONY (sold out)
SE 03 OKT MEPPELTHEATRE OGTEROP
SO 04 OKT EDUCULTURA
WED 07 OKT ENSCHEDEBIG CHURCH
DO 08 OKT HEERLENPARKSTAD LIMBURG THEATRES
VR 09 OKTUTRECHTTIVOLIVREDENBURG
SO 11 OKT AMSTERDAM PARADISO
About the Netherlands Wind Ensemble:
The Nederlands Blazers Ensemble (NBE) is a group of more than twenty top musicians who come together some eighty times a year to perform exceptional programmes at home and abroad. Collective inspiration and hunger for adventure drive the NBE to create theatrical music programmes that can rarely be captured under a single musical denominator; the NBE combines contemporary and early music of all shapes and sizes that stimulates the senses and imagination. The NBE is always looking for intriguing collaborations with musicians from other cultures and exciting combinations with other disciplines. With its innovative programmes, the NBE aims to surprise, captivate, move and excite a large audience.