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PODIUM ART

Anything for which people enter a stage.

#HF11 Playing with Nietzsche's moustache in opera fantasy by Wolfgang Rihm

by Henri Drost
9 June 201113 February 2019
3 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS

An opera based on texts by Nietzsche, and then start with loud laughter and main character N trying to catch two water nymphs. Wait a minute, that's Wagner! Well, at Wagner's Rheingold involves three Rhine daughters, but the similarity is too great to be coincidental. And neither is this one, but in the first minutes of Wolfgang Rihm's Dionysos is much more going on. Here is a composer at work who not only plays with text and music, but also with centuries of cultural history and knows how to add jokes to it. It is to get intoxicated.

#HF11 Weather barbed, lovely and humorous notes at mini-festival Xenakis 1234

by Henri Drost
5 June 201129 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS

With the battle between Titans and gods on Mount Olympus, Xenakis opens 1234, a mini-festival in the great Holland Festival. In four concerts, spread over two days, it features Iannis Xenakis central. There is also an extensive exhibition dedicated to the Greek composer, who was a mathematician and architect by birth.