Better to die standing than to live kneeling. The statement is fresh in memory after the murder in the Lange Leidse Dwarsstraat, as a mantra in praise of Peter R de Vries, his fearlessness, non-conformism, straightforwardness and honesty. This same statement jumps out even from the first paragraphs of the introduction to the biography of poet Jef Last, written by Rudi Wester.1....
The greater the resistance to be overcome, the greater the achievement. This wry wisdom is expressed in the Russian narrative concert 'Living under a tyrant'. Cellist Lidy Blijdorp adds another beautiful, personal and original episode to her Cello 020 series with this programme around the life story of composer Shostakovich. She performs in this concert together with...
Het 47ste filmfestival Rotterdam opent met Jimmie, een vluchtverhaal op z’n kop. Regisseur Jesper Ganslandt over filmen met zijn zoontje en de verbanden met zijn debuut Falkenberg Farewell.
For those who like to be around art, politics has become a bit more fun again, since 15 March. Since the 2017 elections, Thierry Baudet has been in the House of Representatives. Thierry Baudet knows a lot about art, he thinks, and we will come to know it, too. In fact, Thierry Baudet is the best thing about art these days...
When we think of 'The Dark Ages', we think of the rough raw dark Middle Ages, with church and king and no hygiene. However, Swiss director Milo Rau's performance, now at the Holland Festival, refers to a much more recent piece of European history. In a recent interview With the Culture Press, he said:
'She is the embodiment of the incredible lightness of existence, agile, alert and precise on the beat.' So says one critic about Korean-American conductor Han-Na Chang (Suwon, 1982), who led just about every major orchestra after her debut in 2007. In 2014, she scored highly at the renowned BBC Proms with her fresh interpretation of the Fifth Symphony....
Propaganda is not just something that occurs in, say, Russia, but also in the West - more so than we ourselves realise. For example, is it widely believed today that the atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to force Japan to capitulate and thus end World War II, nothing could be further from the truth. In that respect, Germany goes...
With its latest retrospective If We Ever Get To Heaven, EYE again convincingly and confidently presents itself as a museum that looks beyond film history. Previous exhibitions such as Expanded Cinema, which showcased visual artists working at the intersection of film and art, already demonstrated this. Now William Kentridge has been given the honour of...
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'.
Wat maakt een opera tot een succes? De zonderlingen, leeghoofden, comici, lyrici en tragici menen het te weten, en verkondigen hun standpunt op de gekste momenten en zijn zelfs niet te beroerd om in de handeling in te grijpen. Welkom in wondere wereld van Prokofjevs L’amour des trois oranges, deze maand opnieuw op de planken in het Amsterdamse muziektheater.
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.
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.
Heus waar. Er wordt gelachen in de klassieke muziek. Bij menig orkestrepetitie zijn de altvioolgrapjes niet van de lucht. En in het Concertgebouw kun je wel eens wat besmuikt gegniffel opvangen. Maar klassieke componisten staan niet bekend om hun humor. Behalve Joseph Haydn. De Weense componist bracht hier en daar een gezellige kwinkslag aan in zijn werk. Eén van zijn…
Russian conductor Valeri Gergjev was back in Rotterdam for a while, for one concert. He conducted his own orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO), in de Doelen. The famous orchestra played repertoire that we in our country know inside out: Gustav Mahler's 1st symphony and Dmitri Shostakowich's 1st piano concerto. A now historic combination: because the Netherlands has become fused...
Rotterdam - That every disadvantage 'hep' its advantage is often apparent with symphony orchestras. A chief conductor, for instance, is usually in charge of his own orchestra for no more than about 12 weeks a year. He divides the rest of his time among the other orchestras he is also already chief of. For instance, Yannick Nézet-Séguin is now chief conductor of the Rotterdam Philharmonic as well as...
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