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opera days

TOBIAS KOKKELMANS NEW DIRECTOR/DIRECTOR NEDERLANDS THEATRE FESTIVAL AND AMSTERDAM FRINGE FESTIVAL

by one of our members
19 August 2021
3 min read
ACTUAL, PRESS, SERVICE

Today, the Supervisory Board announced that Tobias Kokkelmans has been appointed as the new director/manager of Stichting de Theaterdagen, organiser of the Nederlands Theater Festival, Amsterdam Fringe Festival, NTFJong and the in-depth platform for professionals NTF-Pro, as of 1 September. In doing so, he succeeds Jeffrey Meulman, who in May this year left the Foundation after sixteen years for the Verkadefabriek....

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Everyone saved? Only a few festivals suffered heavy damage.

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 September 202030 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, Featured, PODIUM ART, APPRECIATE & DONATE!

The total of eight festivals that were given a place in the Basic Cultural Infrastructure thanks to vigorous political lobbying are in the clear. They do not benefit from the extra millions released by the Cabinet on Budget Day to rescue the Performing Arts Fund, because they are not (or no longer) covered by it.

Annelies van Parys: 'No more beautiful symbol of love than a flower'

by Thea Derks
23 April 201829 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, PODIUM ART

In 2014, Annelies van Parys (1975) composed her first opera, Private View, for Asko|Schönberg and Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart. It was awarded the FEDORA - Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera shortly afterwards. The Stuttgart singers submissively asked her to compose a new piece for them. Songs of Love and War/An Archive of Love will premiere 20 May at Operadagen...

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Guy Coolen on Operadagen Rotterdam: 'We call ourselves a bluff festival'

by Thea Derks
6 April 201830 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART

'If Mohammed doesn't come to the mountain, the mountain will come to Mohammed,' they thought at Operadagen Rotterdam. Earlier this year, the Enschede-based Nederlandse Reisopera gave a press presentation in Carré. This time, the Rotterdammers travelled to the capital. Artistic director Guy Coolen and dramaturge Tobias Kokkelmans told a select club of journalists what the audience could expect from 18-27 May,...

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You won't want to miss these three operas by women during Operadagen Rotterdam

by Thea Derks
8 May 20171 May 2018
4 min read
For members only, OPERA, PODIUM ART

Friday 12 May kicks off the twelfth edition of Operadagen Rotterdam. Titled Lost & Found, the ten-day festival is dedicated to current refugee issues. I selected three operas by Calliope Tsoupaki, Annelies van Parys and Claron McFadden, strong women whose work deserves to be heard (and seen). The fear of the unknown is as old as the...

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Match for five lemonade with a straw. (It's not called that but that's what it sounds like)

by Inger Stokkink
2 May 201730 March 2022
4 min read
Aarhus 2017, For members only, MUSIC, SPECIALS

It is dark. Basses thump. An intoxicatingly sweet female perfume hangs in the air, a child cries. AquaSonic has just started, and I already want to leave. What possesses a musician to go head-to-head? Our Danish correspondent went to find out. AquaSonic is an ode to water, played by Between Music, a collective of five Danish musicians. They make...

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The five shows you must see in May

by Henri Drost
3 May 201630 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, DANS, MUSIC, OPERA, PODIUM ART, THEATER

Toneelschuur, Don Carlos (stage) Nina Spijkers brings Friedrich Schiller's classic play back to its essence. No lavish scenery depicting the Spanish court, but canvases peeled off layer by layer. playlist M31 Foundation, Nederlandse Reisopera, Theater na de Dam, Der Kaiser von Atlantis (opera) Forty years after its world premiere at Theater Bellevue, Victor Ullmann's Der Kaiser von Atlantis will be re...

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vlnr: Koen van Impe, Clara Cleymans en Waas Gramser van Comp Marius in Rotterdam, Figaro. Foto: Wijbrand Schaap

Brilliant actors in smooth comedy at Europe's biggest hangout

by Wijbrand Schaap
22 May 201530 March 2022
3 min read
For members only, THEATER

Europe's biggest hangout. That's the best way to describe the roof of that half-sunken car park in the heart of Rotterdam. Transformed fifteen years ago into the impression of a ship's deck, that 'Schouwburgplein' is now mostly owned by groups of skaters, vagrants, street urchins and other metropolitan troublemakers. Visitors to the Schouwburg usually rush without looking around too much to the...

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The five shows you must see in May

by Henri Drost
6 May 201529 March 2022
2 min read
For members only, DANS, OPERA, THEATER

Nederlandse Reisopera, Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice (opera), 1 May to 6 June Dazzling debut by director Floris Visser at the Nederlandse Reisopera. Rather than showing a centuries-old opera about an even much older myth, he exposes the core of Gluck's opera. It results in a heartbreaking performance about mourning and the inability to accept that your loved one is no longer there....

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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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Gergiev Festival full of Sunday afternoon music

by one of our members
16 September 201229 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

What could be the matter with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Gergiev Festival - the official name to emphasise its international appeal anyway? As soon as you enter concert hall de Doelen, you immediately get the feeling that you have arrived at an ordinary, weekday concert, even though Valeri Gergiev is on the posters. No decoration of the large rooms...

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Soul Seek is the world's first internet opera. With a nod to Mulholland Drive.

by Daniel Bertina
10 May 201230 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

"For me, opera is much more than just music," says Israeli director Sjaron Minailo. "It may sound a bit pompous, but my internet opera is completely in the tradition of Richard Wagner. Soul Seek is really a multimedia gesamtkunstwerk, in which fashion, web design and digital media, play, cinema, theatre, dance and experimental music merge into one. Without one element...

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Die Jahreszeiten, in OT's version, fits perfectly into the Flemish-Dutch Opera Days

by one of our members
31 May 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

In the Netherlands, the view of opera is mainly guided by concert practice. As such, the Dutch approach to this genre differs considerably from what is common in the rest of Euroa. This is evident from the fact that over the past century, investments have been made in concert halls that are among the best in the world: the Amsterdam...

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