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PODIUM ART

Anything for which people enter a stage.

Six stars for Falstaff National Opera

by Henri Drost
8 June 201430 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS

After partially or even completely unsuccessful productions of Falstaff, De Nationale Opera now does everything right. Twenty years after the previous attempt in the Holland Festival, Verdi's last opera gets a dream performance that could only just become audience favourite of the entire festival.

And that for a dramatic comedy, a genre that is notoriously difficult to stage. All too often, the opera about the old, fat knight Sir John Falstaff, for whom life revolves around eating, drinking...

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Kylián Festival. 8 ways to stay on top as a choreographer

by Ruben Brugman
2 June 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Jiří Kylián is not at the Holland Festival. He has his own festival. The small Korzo theatre hosted ten days of intimate works by the great choreographer. Varied and still impressive. Next year, Kylián will have been a choreographer for 45 years. How do you keep performing at the world's top for so long?

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Pierre Audi's latest Holland Festival opens with sublime ensemble playing of Rosas and Ictus: Vortex Temporum

by Fransien van der Putt
31 May 201411 July 2016
11 min read
ACTUAL, DANS, Holland Festival, SPECIALS

It seems like a statement, opening the latest Holland Festival under Pierre Audi's direction with 'Vortex Temporum'. The collaboration between the two top Belgian ensembles Rosas and Ictus does everything that is scarce in the present day.

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Win tickets to opera at Paradiso! Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go to The News today

by Henri Drost
31 May 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, OPERA

Win tickets for The NEWS at Paradiso

Big new, small news. News is everywhere, there is no escape. On the street, in one's own living room. What starts at the breakfast table can become world news. So: what is your news today? Let us know, share this page and take a picture, post it on facebook and twitter. Add #thenewsnl and win two tickets to the reality opera that will permanently change your view of the news.

Jubilant reviews. With the 'reality opera' The News, the Nederlandse Reisopera has a hit on its hands. However, the familiar theatre setting is being abandoned for pop temple Paradiso. Whether you like opera or not: five reasons to go.

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Surfer dances against AIDS and now celebrates at The Concertgebouw

by Ruben Brugman
28 May 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS

A surfing Dutch marketing guy noticed in South Africa that a disease was thinning the population indiscriminately. That made him care. Now, as an undisputed highlight, dance4life is celebrating its tenth anniversary at The Concertgebouw Amsterdam.

To get the top of the world involved in dance4life within 3 years and raise awareness for AIDS and HIV through dance and music. That was the mission of dance4life founders Dennis Karper (jeans brand marketer) and Ilco van der Linden (founder Bevrijdingspop)....

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Requiem for the Red Box

by Thea Derks
27 May 201430 March 2022
6 min read
For members only, MUSIC

After seven concert seasons, the broadcasting series 'The Friday of Vredenburg' says goodbye to emergency venue Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, better known as 'The Red Box'. From September, the concerts will again take place in the Great Hall of the otherwise brand-new TivoliVredenburg, restored to its former glory. The concert on 6 June will feature the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra and the Groot Omroepkoor conducted by Antony Hermus. They will play music by Beethoven, Richard Strauss and a gl...

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Volksopera is a celebration of Ondiep, but what will be left when the cameras are gone?

by Wijbrand Schaap
24 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

Barely five months between first audition and first performance. That was all the time the makers and local residents had for the Volksopera Ondiep, which experienced the first of two performances on Friday 23 May. It was a warm May evening, touching at times, sometimes dreadful, but fun anyway: classics by Verdi (most of them), Bizet, Puccini and Offenbach, set to Dutch text and sung by complete amateurs. Accompanied, for once, by the Groot Omroepkoor.

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From packaging for fish to opera: JacobTV's The News

by Thea Derks
20 May 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

The News: today it's hot, tomorrow the fish will be wrapped in it. In his video opera The News, Jacob ter Veldhuis/JacobTV gives it a second life by placing it in a new context. 'Nowadays, news is infotainment, dipped in sentiment.' Next Friday, the Nederlandse Reisopera will premiere it at the Wilminkteather in Enschede. Although premiere? This is the fifth version of the 'reality opera', which was first performed in 2011 and then in various guises Amer...

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Faust: eye- and ear-pleasing, but distant

by Thea Derks
16 May 201411 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

In Catholic Limburg, I was taught catechism every week in primary school. "What are we here on earth for?", asked Mr pastor. With the whole class we droned out the answer: "To become happy here and in the hereafter." A similar question occurred to me last night during the performance of the opera Faust by Charles Gounod at The National Opera. "To what end do we go to the theatre?" For me, the answer is: "To be touched, purified, yes maybe even happy." Given the rave reviews, I expected that this would indeed be the case.

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Legendary director Peter Brook (89): Theatre is the field given to me

by Wijbrand Schaap
13 May 20143 July 2022
15 min read
ACTUAL, Holland Festival, SPECIALS, THEATER

The Valley of Astonishment. Titles don't come much prettier than that of 'The Valley of Astonishment'. Theatre legend Peter Brook's tentative last play is coming to Amsterdam. The Holland Festival gave me and two journalists from Parool and NRC, respectively, the opportunity to talk to the already legendary director when he was alive. Pretty special, because the man who enchanted an entire generation of theatre-makers and audiences with performances such as the nine-hour Mahabharata in Avignon, is considered a deity among theatre connoisseurs and enthusiasts.

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Is Anne too big for reviews? 3 reasons why I find it hard to review Anne

by Wijbrand Schaap
10 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Someone commented on Facebook that it looked a bit odd for a newspaper to hand out stars for a play based on The Diary of Anne Frank. Although I myself shudder to give out stars this early for a Godwin make, surely there is something to The Play and The Review. Indeed, reviews of The Play to The Diary seem superfluous. For how do you review such a play, with such a history? Isn't fuss about layering or no layering, adventurousness or no adventurousness in the direction even a little irreverent? So these are three issues, which led me to consider that maybe it shouldn't be possible at all. Anne review.

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Brotherhood in turbulent times

by Thea Derks
7 May 201411 July 2016
3 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

In 2001, when Rotterdam was European Capital of Culture, a number of institutions joined forces and from this, in 2005, the Rotterdam Opera Days born. The aim is to programme innovative musical theatre in the opera house-less Maasstad after all, often in unusual locations. This year the ninth edition will take place, from 17 to 25 May, with the theme 'brotherhood'.

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Juliette Binoche plays at Toneelgroep Amsterdam

by Wijbrand Schaap
5 May 201411 July 2016
1 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

Because Dutch culture the Dutch only notice when scoring abroad (also applies to football, by the way): Big news about the Netherlands' first company. National coach Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam has appointed none other than Juliette Binoche snared for a lead role in a play.

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Ironing or hitting

by Thea Derks
2 May 201429 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC

It will be hard to choose how we will musically fill our next weekend: will we stay in Amsterdam for the Amsterdam Marimba Weekend, or travel to The Hague, where Dag in de Branding is entirely dedicated to the string quartet? In short: are we going to string or strike? For those who can't decide, check out Amsterdam Sinfonietta and Slagwerk Den Haag later this month - they just do both!

The Amsterdam Marimba Weekend runs from 9 to 11 May and is themed 'The Eastern Connection'. The...

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You may ask 1 question to theatre legend Peter Brook, what will you ask?

by Wijbrand Schaap
25 April 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

I will be talking to Peter Brook in Paris on 7 May 2014. For people who have studied theatre, this is something very special. The man once wrote a very well-organised and manageable booklet that is on the shelf of all theatre people: The Empty Space. But he was also the director of performances where more people attended than there were ever seats. In other words. At parties, daring or being able to say you have been to a performance at Les Bouffes Du Nord, or nine hours in ...

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Concertzender fights for his life again

by Thea Derks
18 April 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC

For the umpteenth time in its more than 30 years of existence, the colourful Concertzender going down. That is why there will be a benefit concert at the Amstelkerk in Amsterdam. Greats like Liza Ferschtman, Yuri Honing, Erik Bosgraaf and the Ragazze Quartet will perform for free, to support the station that broadcasts so many live recordings of their concerts. I myself started my career as a radio producer there in 1995, so I would say: come all, and donate generous! For less than two tonnes a year, the station will stay on air.

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Johan Simons receives 150,000 euros: 'I thought, that must be for Elsie'

by Wijbrand Schaap
17 April 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, THEATER

This year's Prince Bernhard Culture Fund Prize goes to Johan Simons. At the announcement, in a meadow below Utrecht, the director was surprised: he suspected the prize was meant for his wife, Elsie de Brauw, widely regarded as one of the best actresses in the Netherlands and Belgium.

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Strauss evening of unprecedented height: Arabella as vorspiel of Scenes from a marriage

by Henri Drost
16 April 201430 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, OPERA

To perhaps the most beautiful music written by Strauss, Arabella descends the stairs and hands Mandryka a glass of water. Their engagement is thus sealed. Behind the loving couple, however, an inky black space opens up into which both disappear.

No, in this staging by Christof Loy, Arabella is anything but the light-hearted Viennese comedy Strauss asked of his librettist Hugo von Hoffmansthal. No Rosenkavelier light, rather the vorspiel of Scenes from a marriage.

Where in many...

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Tom Waits exists thanks to Partch. 7 reasons to go see Delusion of the Fury. And listen.

by Wijbrand Schaap
14 April 201411 July 2016
5 min read
ACTUAL, VISUAL, Holland Festival, OPERA, SPECIALS, THEATER

'Harry Partch knew exactly what he was doing. He chose very specific bourbon bottles to fill in those 43 steps in the octave. So he made music that is very accessible, but also very elusive. And that's what good art should do.'

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'Already depressed when the sateh is finished.' Lineke Rijxman on 'The Freudjes' by Mugmetdegoudentand.

by Wijbrand Schaap
9 April 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, THEATER

Update: performance The Freudjes has been postponed for now, until probably later this year.

'I think it's theatre. Psychoanalysis is theatrical.' Lineke Rijxman is fascinated by psychiatrists. Not because she walks through their doors herself, but because psychiatry is a rewarding subject for someone who makes theatre. That is why it had to happen: a play about Freud. But not about Sigmund himself, or his family. The play "The Freudjes (No Family)" is about three sisters i...

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Even the dancers didn't know it. Conny Janssen dances for Obama and 58 world leaders.

by Ruben Brugman
25 March 201411 July 2016
2 min read
ACTUAL, DANS

Dancing in front of 58 world leaders, and of course Obama himself. As a thread, as an opening act. Just imagine the assignment. For three months, Conny Janssen Danst secretly worked on this mission. Until Monday 24 March the happened.

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OFFline - OFFprojects-photo MIlenaTwiehaus

5 ways to renew dance in 1 performance. Go OFFline in Korzo

by Ruben Brugman
24 March 201430 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, DANS

As a museum, if you want to participate a little, you have to lead the audience through the presentation interactively. You should be able to do the same with dance, choreographer Amos Ben-Tal must have thought with his project OFFline. He shows 5 ways. In a performance.

1. start differently
The much-used formula of 'sit in your chair and watch a performance' is immediately jettisoned at OFFline by dance collective OFFPROJECTS. At first, you walk through various spaces of the Korzo theatre and get to work ...

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Timeless staging of St John Passion grips at throat

by Henri Drost
23 March 201411 July 2016
3 min read
OPERA

The main character of Bach's St John Passion? Jesus, of course. Wrong. It is the narrator, the evangelist, especially in Dale Duesing's wonderful staging, especially when interpreted by Robert Burt. Where in ordinary performances of the Johannes the evangelist's recitatives mainly interrupt the arias and choral passages, here they form the dramatic core. We truly see John's passion.

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"Forbidden!" Or is it? Reinbert de Leeuw performance makes curious about biography

by Henri Drost
20 March 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

It is the kind of publicity even literary agency Sebes and Van Gelderen dreams of. An argument between biographer and subject that makes it into all the national newspapers. Especially when it is not a biography of, say, an ex-soccer player who squandered his fortune, but one of wayward composer and conductor Reinbert de Leeuw.

On Friday, the book was in bookstores, with a rave review in Het Parool on the same day, followed another day later by an interview with author Thea Derks...

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Director sues own orchestra to death

by Henri Drost
16 March 201429 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

It was big news. One orchestra is seizing the instruments of another. Only it doesn't add up. Just as much does not appear to be right in conductor Jan Willem de Vriend's letter in last Thursday's Volkskrant.

Because we have been closely following the orchestral feud between the Netherlands Philharmonic and the Netherlands Symphonic for some time, we already knew that De Vriend was not telling the truth with his statement that, legally speaking, it was now 2-2 between the two orchestras. It st...

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