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Calliope Tsoupaki on Mariken in the garden of lust: 'I was surprised by that 16th-century text!'

On 7 October, the first try-out of Calliope Tsoupaki's opera Mariken in de tuin der Lusten will go on at Theater aan de Schie in Schiedam. Sunday 11 October is the world premiere at the Koninklijke Schouwburg in The Hague. At the invitation of Opera2Day, Tsoupaki immersed herself in Mariken van Nieumeghen, heroine of the miracle play of the same name that took place exactly five hundred years ago in... 

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Mensen zijn geïnteresseerd in mensen. 4 Essentiële lessen in masterclass van Pierre Audi.

In een vol Universiteitstheater gaf Pierre Audi dinsdag 6 oktober een masterclass voor jonge zangers, dramaturgen en regisseurs. Drie scènes waren voorbereid door de studenten en werden daarna vakkundig gefileerd door Audi. “Sorella, que dici?…. Prenderò quel brunettino”, uit Mozart’s Così fan tutte begon als een scène van twee punkmeisjes die gegrepen werden door consumentisme. De regisseur en dramaturgen in opleiding… 

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Eline van Ark makes dance not to watch especially

Those who go to a dance performance want to enjoy beautiful movements, expression, movement composition and a fine stage setting, wrapped in music or a soundscape. But there is something, which is always overlooked: the sound of dance itself. Dancer and choreographer Eline van Ark discovered that this forgotten aspect holds great richness and subtle expressiveness. The sound... 

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Sopraan Katharine Dain hoogtepunt Zeven Bruggenfestival

Tijdens het Zeven Bruggenfestival, van 29 september tot en met 4 oktober, kon je genieten van kamermuziekconcerten in prachtige historische panden in Amsterdam. Eén concert, op 1 oktober, lichten we eruit. In Museum Geelvinck Hinlopen klonken composities van Haydn en Beethoven. Met onder meer een stroeve Haydn-sonate op pianoforte vleugel en spetterende ‘Volksliederen’ van Van Beethoven door de expressieve sopraan Katharine… 

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The six shows you must see in October

Opera2Day, Mariken in de tuin der lusten (opera) The young The Hague company Opera2Day produces one splendid performance after another. But at the same time it does not rest on all its laurels, opting for adventure by presenting an entirely new opera together with the Nationale Toneel. At the centre is Mariken van Nieumeghen, the girl "who lived with the devil for seven years", the music is by Calliope Tsoupaki and... 

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Recognition at Dutch Dance Days for plodding 'Swans' 2015 winners

During a festive dinner at Theater aan het Vrijthof in Maastricht, 'Zwanen' were awarded to dancer Jorge Nozal of NDT 1, Ann Van den Broek for The Black Piece and to Roel Voorintholt (Gouden Zwaan), artistic director of Introdans. The annual highlights festival De Nederlandse Dansdagen hosted this successful 'Swan Dinner': posh sponsors and stakeholders ate side by side with messy dance artists. This is how it should be... 

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Ad hoc dance in Nederlands Dans Theater's slick Netflix series

Bodies are dragged away to loud applause and cheers: a more symbolic beginning Nederlands Dans Theater could not have imagined. With Start Again, the international ballet company highlights an exile until 2019 at the harbour in Scheveningen. A tricky location, because remote. But also a dynamic place. A Dutch choreographer would surely invent a choreography there with ferries, cutters and lifeboats. NDT, however, chooses the... 

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HET Symphony Orchestra won't get its 2016 budget done

THE Symphony Orchestra does not have a balanced budget for 2016. Without additional money from the province, it can no longer perform its core task, nor can it fulfil all the commitments it made earlier. That is the gist of the letter CDA deputy commissioner Hester Maij sent to Provincial Council, ahead of its meeting on 7 October. The subject of the letter: "progress business plan/redemption subsidy HET Symfonieorkest".... 

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240 Pubers stil krijgen bij Shakespeare? Een gebruiksaanwijzing.

Veel theatermakers smeken heimelijk om de invoering van lijfstraffen voor scholieren met CKV. Scholieren met CKV zijn er namelijk op uit om het leven van acteurs te verwoesten. Ze worden daarin bijgestaan door ongeïnteresseerde docenten, die op hun vrije avond meer moeite doen om in de smaak te vallen bij hun pupillen dan bij de aanbieders van cultuur. Als compromis gelden… 

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Powerladies in Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ

In 1989 plaatste het Holland Festival componisten uit de Sovjet-Unie centraal. De muziek van Galina Oestvolskaja en Sofia Goebaidoelina sloeg in als een bom. De dames bleken here to stay, hoewel zij zich bewegen op twee uitersten van onze klankperceptie. Oestvolskaja beukt haar boodschap met monomane gedrevenheid onze trommelvliezen in, Goebaidoelina bedwelmt ons met geheimzinnige ritsel- en fluisterklanken. Voor mij behoren… 

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Utrechts postkantoor grote verliezer bij ‘ligconcert’ Canto Ostinato

Begin dit jaar leek het er nog op dat het monumentale en markante Hoofdpostkantoor aan de Utrechtse Neude voorgoed dicht zou blijven. Er was zelfs sprake van een verkoop aan een particulier die er luxe appartementen in zou gaan bouwen, en op die manier de hal van het volk, waar menig Utrechter ooit haar kascheques verzilverde, voorgoed aan het oog… 

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Flow is een kwestie van keihard werken en veel oefenen

Het is nog maar een paar maanden tot Sinterklaas, dus je zou verwachten dat de rijmspieren van de Nederlandse bevolking wel weer op scherp staan. Maar niets blijkt minder waar. Tijdens het Drongo Festival, een manifestatie over meertaligheid in de Utrechtse Jaarbeurs, toonde MC Akwasi dat feilloos aan. Hij past met zijn Nederlandstalige raps goed in de huidige golf van… 

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Eline Vere's wrong choices

Who has not read the book before, in Dutch at secondary school? Eline Vere, Louis Couperus' debut novel, is one of the classics of Dutch literature and was on the reading list for a long time. The novel, which appeared in 1888 as a serial in daily newspaper Het Vaderland, tells the story of Eline Vere, a 23-year-old woman from a well-to-do family, who longs... 

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7 bridges - 5 concerts

Next week, Tuesday 29 September, the 7 Bridges Festival begins in the heart of Amsterdam. It is an initiative of pianist Edward Janning, driving force behind the Erard Ensemble playing on authentic instruments. In five concerts, he will take us past the Amstelkerk on the Amstelveld, Museum van Loon and Museum Geelvinck on Keizersgracht, the Stadsarchief on Vijzelstraat and the Goethe Instituut... 

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Ryan Adams' 1989 is the best concept album of 2015

Early this year, alt.country darling Ryan Adams posted a short snippet of a Taylor Swift cover on twitter and facebook. More was said to be on the way. A joke? A clever ploy to get the tens of millions of 'swifties' as Taylor's fans call themselves to listen to his music too? Neither, it turns out, now that Ryan Adams' 1989 is on the digital shelves: there will be... 

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Spotlight on Chopping Board and Psalms Pump

Cimbalom and harmonium are not the first instruments you immediately think of when you think of classical music. Yet, the ever-adventurous Ludwig collective puts precisely these mavericks at the centre of two concerts, on Saturday 26 September at the AVROTROS Vrijdagconcert in Utrecht and on Sunday 27-9 at Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ in Amsterdam. In 1915, Igor Stravinsky and a friend visited a... 

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Farewell and nostalgia define 33rd Night of Poetry

Listening to a short poem is sometimes hard work. This was evident during the Night of Poetry, held for the 33rd time on Saturday 19 September. At a poem that ends in brief toneless silence from the poet after four short sentences, the experts separate themselves from the amateurs in the audience. Clap quickly, before the next poem is over. Or. 

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Masses in the Kloosterkerk (photo Christiaan de Roo)

Mozart, Kortjakje and the princess

Last weekend 250 years ago, nine-year-old Mozart arrived in The Hague with his parents and sister Nannerl. He arrived on 11 September 1765 to perform at the stadholder court. Due to illness, the Mozarts ended up staying for nine months and the young composer wrote several works here. Harpsichordist and conductor Jörn Boysen organised the festival Mozart in The... 

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Alexander Khubeev wins Gaudeamus Award 2015

This year, too, the Gaudeamus Award went to an Eastern European. In 2014, Ukrainian Anna Korsun won the coveted competition for composers under 30; this year, the €5,000 prize goes to Russian composer Alexander Khubeev* (1986, Perm). This was announced on Sunday 13 September in TivoliVredenburg by Henk Heuvelmans, for many years the driving force behind... 

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Matthijs Rümke (1954 - 2015): inspired and committed theatre talent will not go to waste

'Young people can very well decide for themselves where they want to go or not go. And it just so happens that most of the time it is not to the theatre. So what? That will come naturally. Young people make their own choices, and that more often includes a house party than a play. Dragging them inside is counterproductive. And above all, no compulsory book-list performance,... 

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Rotterdam's Gergiev Festival delivers a brand new masterpiece

'Rachmaninov's melodic gift is impressive and makes the composer very popular'. This is how Valery Gergiev pithily sums up the quality of Rachmaninov's music. The Gergiev Festival that centred around this composer this weekend emphatically sticks to the popular works: the piano concertos and symphonies . Yet it omits many compositions that could have given these works more framework.... 

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My Fringe 2015 in 3 performances

Those who do not want to open the theatre season in 'Black Tie' and with a gala would do well to go to the Fringe Festival. Already in its tenth year, the festival is bouncing in all directions, this year with 80 performances. Unselected, untamed and unjudged, as they call it themselves. In other words, sometimes you see something wonderful and sometimes you... 

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The figures are in. And they don't say anything at all.

We had already announced it. This period is all about positive framing by the arts sector. Good news has to be spread, although people don't really know why. After all, there are no shareholders to be kept happy, only concerned art lovers. Anyway. On Wednesday 9 September, NRC journalist Daan van Lent presented the result of an investigation into the... 

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