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What makes an opera a success? The eccentrics, airheads, comedians, lyricists and tragedians think they know, proclaiming their point of view at the craziest moments and not even bothering to intervene in the action. Welcome to the wonderful world of Prokofiev's L'amour des trois oranges, back on stage this month at the Amsterdam musical theatre.
In 2005, director Laurent Pelly and conductor Stéphane Denève enchanted Dutch audiences with their vision of L'amour des trois oranges By Sergei Prokofiev.
After more than four hours, it happens: emotion. Free Switzerland is bathed in golden sunlight and the choir swells over the most beautiful orchestral sounds Rossini composed. Unworldly sounds, which have little to do with the best-known sounds from Guillaume Tell - The canter from the overture.
200 military personnel and JunkieXL are expected to cause a spectacle on the A2 motorway near Utrecht on 13 April. The roof of the new tunnel trench will be the stage for a battle of medieval proportions, in which peace will be conquered by our army over something with a wall and 'war' on it.
Once upon a time, subsidised theatre was a left-wing hobby. Now, two years on, subsidised theatre has effortlessly conformed to the prevailing, much more right-wing trend.
Of Tahmina Akefi een goed schrijfster is, durf ik niet te zeggen. De Afghaanse schoonheid kan in ieder geval zinnen aan elkaar plakken, en weet er ook nog een erotisch laagje overheen te gieten. Maar of zij hiermee de gemiddelde stuiverroman overstijgt, of dat ze toch niets anders te bieden heeft dan oriëntaalse softporno? Lastig.
We spoke briefly at Writers Unlimited 2013 with the woman who has been giving workshops in poetry to schoolchildren for a few years now. And we wondered again if rap wasn't enough for them, those kids. No. So it turns out. And she explains it clearly.
Met een bomvol programma zoals Writers Unlimited 2013 wil het wel eens gebeuren dat je, ook als professioneel journalist, ondanks alles toch ergens té laat komt binnenvallen, en dan nog net een glimp opvangt van iets heel moois. In dit geval, na de krachttoer van Amos Oz en Adriaan van Dis, was dat het spoken word optreden van de Keniaanse Ngwatilo Mawiyoo. Mea culpa daarvoor.
En dan kun je dus zomaar het hoogtepunt van de eerste Winternacht missen omdat je het niet meer trekt om met een presentator mee te willen. De Vlaamse auteur Bart van Loo schijnt, aldus menig twitteraar, prachtige zinnen te hebben uitgesproken in het programma ‘Daar geef ik mijn leven voor’, maar dat was ver na twaalven en ik was toen al
Tijdens de aftrap van Winternacht 1 bracht publicist Bas Heijne de twee literaire giganten Amos Oz en Adriaan van Dis nader tot elkaar. Wat is er van hun vroegere idealisme overgebleven? Oz’ spervuur van prachtige oneliners bleek lastig te temmen en zorgde voor een hilarisch, maar beetje onevenwichtig gesprek.
Lebanese writer Hanaan Al-Shaykh (Beirut, Lebanon, 1945) opened Wrtiters Unlimited on Thursday 17 January with a blazing argument against Arab culture of shame. This, according to the writer whose books The story of Zahra, Women between sky and sand, Beirut blues and Only in London have been translated into Dutch, so deep in
Writers Unlimited Special - One of the important guests at Writers Unlimited is Roland Colastica. This Curaçao author made his debut in 2012 with the children's book 'Fireworks in my head'. The book was enthusiastically received, and has since grown into a modest bestseller. Major strength of the story is its colourful and rhythmic style, but just as important is
As the government has killed the entire circuit of production houses and further education, seven theatres have jumped into the gap. They are joining forces to enable a number of 'young' makers to develop their work after all. By offering a number of performances in advance
We received this via Facebook: "During the night of Friday 11 to Saturday 12 January at 1.30am, a group of about seven young men destroyed a large canvas hanging on the facade of Theatre Kikker on the Ganzenmarkt in Utrecht. The canvas, which
Overal loopt het bezoek aan kunst dramatisch terug, behalve, vooralsnog, in Rotterdam. Daar is de Rotterdamnse Schouwburg er in het eerste echte cultuurrampjaar 2012 in geslaagd om het aantal betalende bezoekers gelijk te houden, of zelfs iets te laten stijgen tot ruim 147.500. In het eigen persbericht wijt de directie (nu nog in handen van Jan Zoet) dat aan een scherpere programmering en reprises van succesvolle producties, en een toename van het aantal concerten:
Perhaps the biggest surprise of the 2012 cinema year was that two completely different films were the biggest crowd-pleasers. First, the new James Bond Skyfall, of course, with almost 2 million visits. But that the number two (1.2 million) is a
Three hundred years ago, the Treaty of Utrecht was signed, bringing an end to both the War of Spanish Succession, and the War of Queen Anne. Remarkably, this peace treaty was not negotiated on the battlefield, but at the negotiating table. It took a year and a half for the many parties to come to an agreement, and the treaty counts as the beginning of...
Unrest in poetry land. By a error 'ambiguity' in the website of the National Turing Poem Contest several hundred poems disappeared from the competition probably for the wrong reasons. Alexis de Roode, herself a multiple prize winner, raised the issue on facebook.
Vijftien jaar na Peter Delpeuts Felice, Felice krijgt het International Film Festival Rotterdam weer een Nederlandse opening. De 42ste editie van dit toonaangevende evenement gaat op 23 januari van start met de wereldpremière van De wederopstanding van een klootzak van Guido van Driel, zo maakte festivaldirecteur Rutger Wolfson vanmiddag bekend.
We are just reporting the press release in full. For your information. Every now and then, more news like this comes along. We don't post them all, because that would make the world very bleak. The world as many people knew it, and which they thought was the pride of the Netherlands, is coming to a squeaking halt to make room for. Well. We will report on that in the years to come. Of what comes in its place.
A sound engineer making deafening sounds on stage with wads of paper. Puppetry that flows seamlessly into film projections and singers dubbed by actors. A primitive stage on stage that is, however, high tech. A performance in one of the largest halls in our country, but reminiscent of a flat-floor performance. A flat floor that can move in all directions, though, and could just as easily be a slope or a ceiling, that is.
Amsterdam, 10-12-2012 – Afgelopen weekend begon het Babelfestival in het Ostadetheater, een initiatief van de Diamantfabriek. Deze twee jaar geleden opgerichte productiekern biedt jonge makers de kans kleinschalig muziektheater te ontwikkelen. Dit weekend volgt de première van Black Perfume, van de Russische componiste Anna Mikhailova en de Nederlandse regisseur Annechien Koerselman, naar het verhaal Morfine van Michail Boelgakov.
STUT is a household name. The neighbourhood theatre group has been putting on performances with and about ordinary people from ordinary Utrecht neighbourhoods since 1977. In 2010, the theatre group gave birth to the Stutkoor, which is now taking part in the exchange project of the community art lab for the Treaty of Utrecht celebrations in 2013.
Mooi natuurlijk dat Amour van Michael Haneke gisteravond op Malta bij de uitreiking van de European Film Awards niet alleen bekroond werd als beste film, maar ook de regieprijs en prijzen voor beste acteur en actrice kreeg toegeschoven. Maar een beetje saai begint die lofzang op Haneke’s nieuwste wel te worden. Genoeg dus hierover.
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