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4 faces of Abel Gance, creator of Napoleon

The Holland Festival presents Abel Gance's restored film epic on Sunday Napoleon, with live orchestra. A rare event, for the first time in this form on mainland Europe. In 1927, Gance had performed with Napoleon delivered a groundbreaking and monumental piece of work that made unusual demands on the projection (three canvases) and went out into the world in a variety of severely shortened versions after the first performances.

Napoleon at Ziggo Dome promises to be spectacular, but who was That ambitious loner Abel Gance?

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Six stars for Falstaff National Opera

Na deels of zelfs volkomen mislukte producties van Falstaff doet De Nationale Opera nu alles goed. Twintig jaar na de vorige poging in het Holland Festival krijgt Verdi’s laatste opera een gedroomde uitvoering die maar zo publiekslieveling van het hele festival kan worden.

 
En dat bij een dramatische komedie, een genre dat notoir lastig ten tonele te voeren is. Maar al te vaak wordt de opera  over de oude, dikke ridder Sir John Falstaff, voor wie het leven draait om eten, drinken en vrouw...

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

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

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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Requiem for the Red Box

Na zeven concertseizoenen neemt de omroepserie ‘De Vrijdag van Vredenburg’ afscheid van noodlocatie Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn, beter bekend als ‘De Rode Doos’. Vanaf september vinden de concerten weer plaats in de in oude luister herstelde Grote Zaal van het verder gloednieuwe TivoliVredenburg. Tijdens het concert van 6 juni wordt groots uitgepakt door het Radio Filharmonisch Orkest en het Groot Omroepkoor onder leiding van Antony Hermus. Zij spelen muziek van Beethoven, Richard Strauss en een gl...

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

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

Het nieuws: vandaag is het hot, morgen wordt de vis erin verpakt. In zijn video-opera The News geeft Jacob ter Veldhuis/JacobTV het een tweede leven door het in een nieuwe context te plaatsen. ‘Tegenwoordig is nieuws infotainment, gedompeld in sentiment.’ Komende vrijdag brengt de Nederlandse Reisopera de première in het Wilminkteather in Enschede. Hoewel première? Dit is de vijfde versie van de ‘reality opera’, die in 2011 voor het eerst werd uitgevoerd en daarna in verschillende gedaantes Amer...

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

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

'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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6 Reasons why Holland Festival 2014 will be the best ever. And War Horse.

 "The only one who still dares to go for the elite". On his way to the car park under the Passengers Terminal Amsterdam, the retired newspaper reviewer who once had a page on music sighed at the feeling of his part of society. It was after the press conference where the programme of Holland Festival 2014 was presented. He was talking, as we sank deeper and deeper, about Pierre Audi, the artistic director of that Holland Festival, who this year announced his last - and most glorious - programme ever.

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Research shows: music taste is a matter of appointment and habituation

That we have a scale the way we do, and that we perceive certain chords as beautiful, is because we have learned it. And what we have learned is the result of agreements. In music, as in fine art or theatre, there is no absolute ideal to which artists should aspire. No absolute beauty, no divine spark, no heaven to which we all long to return, just a set of agreements.

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Video: 3 times swearing and ranting for the good cause and Heleen Mees

Omdat Writers Unlimited samenwerkt met een van de laatste literaire tijdschriften van Nederland, en omdat dat tijdschrijft 'Tirade' heet, was er tijdens het laatste festival in Den Haag een plek ingeruimd voor tirades. En wat dat dan zijn? Het online woordenboek zegt: 
[Tweet "Tirade: Lange ononderbroken monoloog, wervend, belerend en soms met een scheldkarakter (filippica)"]

Komen ze:
Jan van der Wal tegen zijn stalker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eTd1DK3KlM
Over Heleen Mees door Simone van...

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Antjie Krog and Andries Samuel drive a tractor over your heart #WU14

"Of course she can write!" seems the mother of the award-winning South African poet Antjie Krog ever having exclaimed. "Because I can do it too, right? There's nothing special about that."

Blood creeps, even for Krog. After a ten-year career as a successful architect - and secretly grinding on words - her own son debuted Andries Samuel with the crushing, heartbreaking collection of poetry Wanpraktyk (2011). 

Writers Unlimited brought mother and son together on stage. Late at night. For the first time ever. And Wende sang to them. And god almighty how beautiful that was. By the way, you have to take it from us, because on pain of caning, pitch & feathers and fines from here to Siberia, it turned out that it was forbidden to film Wende singing (but we did, and the video was online for a while, but has now been removed from the internet).

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Arie Boomsma flings books of poetry at Writers Unlimited

The latenight closures of Winternachten at Writers Unlimited are always upbeat. That's because the poets have already loosened up and the audience has drunk a bit more. And this time it was also because of mega-audience favourite (on other occasions) Arie Boomsma. Out of wantonness, the cheerful ratings canon smashed poetry books of the guests of his programme section.
Echt leuk was het niet voor iedereen, maar je bent dichter en jouw verkoopcijfers passen honderdduizend keer in die van de ...

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‘De uitgerangeerde Marokkaan en de Vlaming mogen het weer uitvechten’ #WU14

In de rijke traditie van schrijvers die elkaars bloed wel kunnen drinken en de ander schuimbekkend met de pen te lijf gaan, orkestreerde Writers Unlimited een 'polemiek'. Abdelkader Benali verwoordde in dit debat de stem van het volk, en Saskia De Coster die van de elite. Beiden hakten op elkaar in met hulp van moderator Elsbeth Etty. Resultaat: veel onsamenhangend getreiter.
Voor de gelegenheid mat Benali, geheel in lijn met de titel van zijn nieuwste roman, zich een Bad Boy-imago aan, door vee...

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2 nights of sex, booze and relaxed writers: a mini guide

Writers Unlimited is the most fun literary festival in the world. We can know, because we have been there twice now. Whether the comparison with all those 20 million other literature festivals in the world is entirely pure, we don't know. We do know that a lot of the writers who attend Writers Unlimited agree with us. At least during those few days and especially nights in January.
A few reasons.
1: Seks
Op Writers Unlimited gaat minstens één programma altijd over sek...

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Artists' acquittal: March of Civilisation was civilised after all

De politie heeft te hard opgetreden bij de Mars der Beschaving op 27 juni 2011 in Den Haag. De demonstratie tegen de bezuinigingen op de kunst, die vanwege zijn nogal elitaire naamgeving omstreden was, eindigde met een paar charges van de ME op kunstenaars. Hun vriendelijke sit-in ontaardde daardoor in iets wat tegenstanders van al die elitaire subsidieslurpers (aldus Martin Bosma van de PVV) maar al te graag zagen: geweld.
De facebook update met de melding van de vrijspraak
Onterecht, blijkt nu...

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Piano man Kiev inspired by art at Hoog Catharijne

De Pianoman, de jongen die dit weekend viral ging omdat hij piano speelde tegenover een peloton ME in Kiev, kwam in Hoog Catharijne op zijn idee. NRC Handelsblad meldt dat. De 22 jarige Markian Matsech liep deze zomer als zovelen door het Utrechtse winkelhart, net toen daar de kunstmanifestatie Call of the Mall plaatsvond. Een beeld dat hij daar zag inspireerde hem zo dat hij een eigen draai eraan gaf.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeFzeNAHEhU
Het bewuste beeld is de wassen pop van de Tank-man ...

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Co-operation is co-operation: Culture Press after Lost-painters now joins forces with Bijlage.tv

We were actually still missing a good video event, and the people behind Annex.tv, the online TV channel for XS4all subscribers was still missing a good online presence in the cultural sector. And so that's where we could help each other. We thought. So we try out what we can do together.

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Subtle but dull Fokine fine lead to Van Manen's 'Corps' and promising premiere of EGPC at the Dutch National Ballet

The bodies of Fokine, Van Manen and EGPC in the Dutch National Ballet's new programme 'Corps' are vastly different, though they all dance a form of ballet. It is the differences in stakes (decorative or expressive, stylised control or individual surrender, full of symbolism or stripped of it) and the key role for the ensemble that make the programme extremely interesting. Besides the fact that EGPC seems to be on its way to an artistic breakthrough.

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Daan Roosegaarde for president? Alderman? Councillor?

Jet Bussemaker gelooft in Daan Roosegaarde. Dat bekende zij zondag 1 september tijdens het traditionele Paradisodebat. Ze bewondert zijn moed om het het ondenkbare te bedenken en zijn gedrevenheid om niet met opinies te komen, maar met voorstellen. Haar boodschap aan de kunstsector, wederom bijna voltallig aanwezig in Paradiso, was helder: hou op met klagen, ga wat doen.
De politieke afsluiter van de Uitmarkt stond dit jaar in het teken van 'verandering'. Want dat er iets moet veranderen is de o...

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Art. Videos for those who did not already know

Van facebook gesponst: wie zich afvroeg waarom er ook alweer kunst was. Of waarom dat geld kost. Die mensen zijn er .
Series of videos now.
John Maeda
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yc-_Ei2Yto
Meryl Streep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-a8QXUAe2g&feature=youtu.be
Lyn Heward:
http://youtu.be/RaN89k01V-4
Josh Groban:
http://vimeo.com/4396242
Sir Andrew Motion:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FrFxMf73Fc
Denzel Washington
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpW2sGlCtaE&feature=youtu.be
Amanda Pa...

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Dutch Dance Days Prize nominations: Cecilia Moisio, Giulio d'Anna and Melissa Ellberger

Young choreographers Cecilia Moisio, Giulio d'Anna and Melissa Ellberger have been nominated for the Prize of the Nederlandse Dansdagen Maastricht 2013.
 
Cecilia Moisio - photo Jamain Brigitha
Cecilia Moisio kreeg bekendheid als danseres in werk van o.a. Ann van den Broek. Sinds enige jaren maakt ze ook eigen werk. Juxtapose, de choreografie waarmee ze is genomineerd, is een geestige, maar ook bijtende performance, waarin Moisio een stevig pleidooi houdt voor een gelijke plaats van de vrouw na...

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I Like To Watch Too is a must for keeping the performing arts in the Netherlands young and fresh

A man and a woman dance passionately in the hall of Paradiso. Such an experimental dance performance is unusual for the Amsterdam pop palace. Yet the festival I Like To Watch Too right here. Many people feel a barrier towards this kind of performance, but here there is just the right 'in and out' atmosphere to make avant-garde art something you can just look at and that always triggers something in you.

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