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The concentration is enormous, the mastery great. The boys and girls standing here dancing can do something. The apparent ease with which these 12-year-olds demonstrate their dance moves shows at the same time how difficult ballet is. After all, the movements have to be performed perfectly, and splashily. Moreover, of this group, only a few will make it to the world's top: The National Ballet. Students of the... 

Vredenburg Friday in 'Red Box' for one more season

When Muziekcentrum Vredenburg closed its doors for an ambitious renovation in 2007, the symphonic concerts were moved from the centre of Utrecht to the emergency location Vredenburg Leidsche Rijn on the A2 motorway. The broadcasting series 'De Vrijdag van Vredenburg', created two years earlier, moved along to this temporary accommodation, which was soon renamed 'Red Box'. Against all odds, programmer Astrid in 't Veld managed to develop the fledgling concert series there into a public...

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The best woman in the best place: Ellen Walraven director Rotterdam Schouwburg

This was a possibility not many people initially thought of. After all, after her tropic years as director of the Amsterdam debating centre De Balie, Ellen Walraven was in need of some more substantive work and peace and quiet on her mind, So we suspected she would stay on in her new position as dramaturge with the country's first company Toneelgroep Amsterdam for a while. But apparently - and not entirely unexpectedly - she did not like working under Ivo van Hove as much as she liked the mog...

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Peter the Great: the curious tsar is back in Amsterdam

The Netherlands-Russia year is kicking off and what better way to start than with an exhibition dedicated to the most famous Russian of all time? The Hermitage Amsterdam is therefore hosting the exhibition 'Peter the Great, an inspired tsar'. A biographical exhibition revolving around his life, wars, passions, collections and, above all, his boundless curiosity. These brought him to Amsterdam on two trips and inspired him to reform his country. Without him, today's ...

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Prokofiev's satirical fairy tale is a visual feast

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 at Amsterdam's Music Theatre this month.

At the centre seems to be an absurdist fairy tale about a hypochondriac prince who is tricked by a sorceress into falling in love with three orange...

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Prokofiev fairytale opera on repeat

L'amour des trois oranges

In 2005, director Laurent Pelly and conductor Stéphane Denève enchanted Dutch audiences with their vision of Sergei Prokofiev's L'amour des trois oranges. With its inventive sets, supremely musical direction, dazzling costumes and superb performances by soloists, DNO's Choir and the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, this production by the Netherlands Opera met the most highly tense...

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Only in final scene does Guillaume Tell bathe in golden sunlight

After more than four hours, it happens: emotion. Free Switzerland is bathed in golden sunlight and the chorus 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.

A lot may have happened in the previous four hours, but even the famous scene in which Tell has to shoot an apple off his infant son's head is not a dramatic highlight.

H...

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'Mogadishu' fits into zeitgeist of moral confusion

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. Indeed, Toneelgroep Amsterdam has scheduled a stage adaptation of Ayn Rands rabidly anti-social novel and Tea Party bible The Fountainhead. And on Thursday 24 January, Utrecht-based city theatre company De Utrechtse Spelen announced a play in which for the content responsible for the...

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Theatres take matters into their own hands

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 still develop their work. By buying a number of performances in advance and making a small development budget available, the seven of them can put two makers to work per season.

It involves The Rotterdam Theatre, Frascati in Amsterdam

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Another necro. Sort of: Theatre Institute Netherlands to continue as TIN Foundation

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 thought it 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.
Theatre Institute Netherlands to be dismantled from 31 December ...

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Simon McBurney makes Die Zauberflöte magical

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....

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Anna Mikhailova: 'Black Perfume is about addiction and fear'

Amsterdam, 10-12-2012 - Last weekend saw the start of the Babel Festival at the Ostadetheater, an initiative of the Diamantfabriek. Founded two years ago, this production group offers young makers the chance to develop small-scale musical theatre. This weekend sees the premiere of Black Perfume, by Russian composer Anna Mikhailova and Dutch director Annechien Koerselman, based on Mikhail Bulgakov's story Morphine.
Mikhailova (Moscow, 1984) studied with the notorious Tichon Chren...

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First post Culture Press at Press Group

Developing new models on the internet takes time. We have found that out with the Cultural Press Agency by now. With more than 7,500 followers on Twitter and 400 visitors a day to our website, we have now become a factor of importance in cultural journalism. But we are also very happy that four years after the first plans took shape and one year after the start-up subsidy from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science ended, our first publication can be read on the sites of De Persgroep, publisher of Trouw, Volkskrant and Parool.

Boudewijn Koole receives European film award for Kauwboy

Nice, of course, that Michael Haneke's Amour was not only awarded best film at last night's European Film Awards ceremony in Malta, but also received the director's prize and prizes for best actor and actress. But a bit boring is starting to become this paean to Haneke's latest. Enough of this, then.

Unadulteratedly proud, however, we Dutch remain of the continued success of Kauwboy, now awarded the Prix FIPRESCI at the European Film Awards for E...

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Nominate now for the Dance Audience Award

Dance fans can submit their nominations for the most outstanding dance performance of 2012 online from 1 December. The winner will then be able to receive the Dans Publieksprijs early next year. New this year is the possibility to vote for both an individual dancer and a dance performance. The ten most nominated dancers and performances will be announced on 2 January. This will be followed by the voting round. The final award ceremony will take place in the weekend of 9 ...

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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,... 

Theatre tour Eefje de Visser: tears, looks of love and seated dancing

The music of Eefje de Visser comes in. In the silence of the theatre even more so than in clubs, where enthusiastic fans sing along to her words out loud. One spotlight and her guitar, that's all this 26-year-old singer-songwriter needs to touch the room. I see tears, gazes of love and attempts at seated dancing during the official premiere of her theatre tour in the Melkweg.

Ivo van Hove is God. According to New Yorkers.

Anyway: while Amsterdam's city newspaper Parool was embarking on a campaign against the Dutch capital's city company at the behest of the Flemish publishing board, the same Toneelgroep Amsterdam was winning the hearts of New York audiences with a production of the already years-old 'Roman Tragedies', which a few here did not even like overall: http://www.wijbrandschaap.nl/2007/06/romeinse-tragedies-hf2007ta/

No sour sounds in America so far. This sam...

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Getting there, right now! DNO retakes Das Rheingold

They had almost been thrown away: George Tsypin's immense sets for Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. Not because his staging was unsuccessful or would have become obsolete by now, but simply because storage was too hefty a cost for the Netherlands Opera.

Immense they are, the sets that designer and architect Tsypin first presented at De Nederlandse Opera almost 20 years ago. The Muziektheater's stage is among the largest in the world, the width is 32 ...

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November Music focuses on multimedia

's Hertogenbosch 9-11-2012 - November Music was successfully kicked off last Wednesday and also focuses on multimedia in its twentieth edition. The duo Strijbos & Van Merwijk has been there before and that afternoon received the Prins Bernhardcultuurprijs Noord-Brabant, presented by former Concertgebouw director Martijn Sanders. In the evening, their multimedia show Cross Avenue, created for the American string quartet ETHEL, attracted many audiences, the two performances of Cloud-Messenger by Fred...

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