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The five theatrical performances you want to see in January 2015, and you already have to head back to the province

After the annual lists, the recommendations for the new year. All dailies participate in it. Problem: much is not yet known. Festivals and companies present their programmes sometime in February, March. So we cannot yet give the tips for the whole of 2015. But we do have the tips for the coming month, in chronological order, because ranking performances we still have to... 

See monumental visual art? Go to the opera!

For fine art, you go to the museum, especially in Amsterdam and especially now that all the museums have reopened. But there is also another option: the opera. There you see visual art that doesn't fit in any museum, not even in the largest room of the Rijksmuseum. Take the Greek sculptor Jannis Kounellis. From today, his work is a... 

Main lesson from Benjamin Zander: enjoyment of the game is the key to success.

I had promised to check out a session with Benjamin Zander. Me as a non-expert, together with someone who finds classical music downright soporific. To see if Zander works, as he promises to work: "Everyone loves classical music, they just don't know it yet". The man is in the Netherlands and that doesn't happen very often. Not for very long... 

Five things we learned from opera amuse Sweeney Todd

Wat: een voorproefje van de 'musical thriller' Sweeney Todd

Location: the biggest rehearsal space of the Dutch Travel Opera

Present: almost the entire cast, one hundred and fifty guests

Menu: bread, pastry, a dessert as pretty as it is tasty

Drinks: water, red/white wine ánd Bloody Mary's, complete with celery as a stirrer, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, pepper (and salt, nowhere to go), lemon (should have been lime), prepare it yourself

 
(1) Hoe maak je een Bloody Mary
Voo...

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Figaro! Figaro! Figaro! Reisopera on tour with Rossini's masterpiece on order

'Give me a shopping list and I will set it to music,' the Italian composer Gioacchino Rossini is said to have said. Perhaps apocryphal, but fitting for the man who composed faster than musicians could rehearse his scores. Where Wagner needed a lifetime for 14 operas, Rossini wrote triple that. In barely fifteen years.
Samen met Bellini en Donizitti is Rossini de meester van de bel canto opera, en deze drie componisten schreven in min of meer dezel...

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Reisopera 2.0 presents itself and blows dust off gala

With a real gala, the Reisopera 2.0 presents itself. And immediately strips the gala of its stuffy image. With thanks to the Nederlands Blazers Ensemble.
Because opera gala? Well, we hoisted ourselves into our tux, exchanged pleasantries, mean or otherwise, in the lobby with the other invited guests, and were presented with an hour and a half of excerpts from operas, sung by soloists in the neatest attire.
Zo gaat het bij de meeste grote operahuizen. Milaan, New York, Berlijn – het gala waarmee het seizoe...

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Die Zauberflöte II - Overwhelming, but then?

Zauberflöte

Two years ago he was acclaimed for his staging of A Dog's Heart by Alexander Raskatov, now he is lavishly believed for his production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. It premiered last week at The Netherlands Opera and last night too, the sold-out audience responded enthusiastically. Yet the high expectations were not quite met.

Simon McBurney makes Die Zauberflöte magical

Een geluidstechnicus die op het podium met propjes papier oorverdovende klanken maakt. Poppenspel dat naadloos overgaat in filmprojecties en zangers die gedubbeld worden door acteurs. Een oersimpel toneel op het toneel dat echter wel degelijk hightech is. Een voorstelling in een van de grootste zalen van ons land, die echter doet denken aan een vlakke vloer voorstelling. Een vlakke vloer die wel alle kanten op kan bewegen, en even gemakkelijk een helling of een plafond kan zijn, dat dan weer wel...

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Moniek Toebosch no longer beams

Amsterdam, 26-11-2012 - Last Saturday died Moniek Toebosch (1948-2012), the sparkling multi-artist who startled our country from the 1970s onwards with contrary performances. Some of you may remember her scandalous performance in the 1983 Holland Festival. Toebosch presented the programme 'Attacks of Extremes' live for VPRO television from Theater Carré. After half the Broadcasting Orchestra had quit in protest,... 

Nederlands Kamerkoor 75 years young

Amsterdam, 10-10-2012 - Afgelopen zomer al treinde het Nederlands Kamerkoor (NKK) door ons land, om samen met amateurkoren tijdens verrassende stationsconcerten het grote publiek te attenderen op zijn vijfenzeventigjarig bestaan. De komende weken wordt dit jubileum gevierd met een reeks concerten in zeven verschillende steden, onder de wervende titel ‘Een traditie van vernieuwing’.
De aftrap van de feestelijkheden vindt plaats op 12 oktober in het Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam, waar de zan...

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William Kentridge & the dress rehearsal for the Holocaust

Met Black Box / Chambre Noire presenteert het Joods Historisch Museum de eerste tentoonstelling van de Zuid-Afrikaanse kunstenaar William Kentridge in Nederland. Een multimediakunstwerk over de eerste volkerenmoord van de twintigste eeuw. Nu te zien in het Joods Historisch Museum.

Gewapend met knuppels slaan twee donkere schimmenfiguurtjes elkaar de hersens in. En vervolgens een derde slachtoffer, knielend en ongewapend, die na de klappen in stukken uiteenspat. Op de achtergrond is muziek van M...

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Hit in the heart by opening performance by Alain Platel, and then find solace. #hf12

At two-thirds, the lump shoots in to not go out until the end. It happens at every Alain Platèl performance. Heartfelt sobs from the audience, lots of swallowing around you and the inevitable tears welling up like a natural disaster. To call the Flemish choreographer's work predictable because of this is going too far. What he and his company Les... 

Sculpted Ovation for 'ingenious' conductor Iván Fischer

"Programmatic ingenuity goes hand in hand with Fischer's ebullient and finely crafted performances". So when someone says that about you, you have earned a prize. So that is what the jury of formerly the Classical Music Prize thought of Iván Fischer, the Hungarian-born conductor who was therefore awarded the 'Ovation' on Monday 17 October 2011. And so then the 'Ovation'... 

Delft opens with fewer chamber music surprises than other years

For another 15 years, the Delft Chamber Music Festival, so named to reflect its international character, has encompassed 15 years. Violinist Isabelle van Keulen handled the chamber music festival's programming for the first ten years, Lisa Ferschtmann - also a violinist - took over from her five years ago. But even this already successful festival fears the upcoming budget cuts. A pity, because what... 

#HF11 Unadorned, austere and powerful "Flûte Enchantée" by Peter Brook

Papageno showed off without his feathers last night. Indeed, the entire direction of Une flûte enchantée was an unadorned pleasure. Sober. Integral. You can't get a Dutch audience wilder than with such an approach. Compliments, then, to Peter Brook. At the Muziekgebouw aan het IJ was the Dutch premiere of Brook's adaptation of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. The production turned... 

Arts budget debated in second chamber: hardly any discussion on 200 million cut to performing arts

We were at a debate day in The Hague that was as inconspicuous as it was historic on 13 December 2010: it was about the budget of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science of the (first?) Rutte cabinet, and that was the budget in which, at the request of the supporting party PVV, the amount to be cut in the arts budget was set at 200 million, with heritage and museums having to... 

A Don Giovanni without Don before it, without scruples and without illusions, but with a few naked women. #hf10

 Door Wijbrand Schaap Eens in de zoveel tijd staat er een theaterregisseur op die de leegte om zich heen aan de kaak wil stellen. Dat het om de leegte in hem (of haar) zelf gaat, daar komt deze jonge regisseur meestal een jaar of twintig later achter, als die eenmaal wat minder leeg geworden is. Zo gaan die dingen. We… 

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