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Orchestra war escalates: Enschede's star orchestra has to hand in instruments

by one of our members
13 March 201430 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Seizure of the instruments of the former Netherlands Symphony Orchestra is imminent. The orchestra, which has been banned from using the word "Dutch" since a lost legal battle with Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra, is thus not allowed to sell instruments or take them abroad. Pending a countermove from the former Orchestra of the East, they changed the name there to ***** Symphony Orchestra.

Jan Willem De Vriend, conductor of the troubled Enschede-based orchestra, wrote this morning in ...

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Star. Five times. And then Symphony Orchestra.

by Henri Drost
21 February 201430 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

Five-star Symphony Orchestra. This is how the Dutch Symphony Orchestra will be called next season. The former Orkest van het Oosten tried to become 'Dutch' but faced a lawsuit from the Philharmonic Orchestra, which was already 'Dutch'. 'Politics should get involved in the legal process. Because it can't go on like this. This is costing tons of money.' Says Harm Mannak.

[Tweet "Director throws symphony orchestra name up for grabs"]

The director of the former Orchestra of the Oo...

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From Dutch to National and vice versa. DNO and NRO give lesson on name change and collaboration

by Henri Drost
18 October 201330 March 2022
3 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, OPERA

A joint press conference by two companies. In the post-Zijlstra era, that often does not bode well. A merger then seems obvious, especially when it involves the two largest opera companies in our country: De Nederlandse Opera and the Nationale Reisopera. Only now we have to turn that around: the Netherlands Opera will become the National Opera. And the building will be called National Opera and Ballet.

A logical name change given the administrative merger of the Music Theatre, The Na...

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Dutch Symphony Orchestra loses lawsuit and name

by Henri Drost
26 June 20138 July 2016
4 min read
ACTUAL, MUSIC, OPERA

We already wrote about the name change of the Orchestra of the East into the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NedSym). The Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (NedPho) was not amused and felt that the Enschede-based orchestra was infringing its trademark and trademark rights and demanded that the orchestra choose a different name. Summary proceedings followed and in April 2012 the court ruled that the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra could only not use the abbreviation NedSO, but did not have to change its name.

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Only in final scene does Guillaume Tell bathe in golden sunlight

by Henri Drost
30 January 201330 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

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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Der Schatzgräber II: Van Hove exposes core and weaknesses

by Henri Drost
8 September 201230 March 2022
5 min read
For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

"That fairytale world has never been my world," director Ivo van Hove declared before the premiere of Schreker's fairytale opera Der Schatzgräber. Remarkable, as Van Hove and his regular scenographer Jan Versweyveld were previously responsible at De Nederlandse Opera for Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Janáček's The Makropulos Case - also fairy tales rather than grand dramatic works.

Tchaikovsky's last opera is all about Princess Iolanta. Everyone knows she is blind, but keeps...

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Der Schatzgräber I: blistering music, freezing dry staging

by Thea Derks
7 September 201230 March 2022
4 min read
For members only, MUSIC

The Netherlands Opera opens the season with a rarely performed opera by Franz Schreker, in which pagan and Christian themes intermingle. The gorgeous music is countered by the chilly direction, preventing identification with the characters.

At the end of the nearly three-hour Schatzgräber, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra and chief conductor Marc Albrecht were clapping the loudest at the Muziektheater last night. At his instigation, De Nederlandse Opera pulled out...

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Amsterdam takes Netherlands Symphony Orchestra to court

by Henri Drost
23 February 201229 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only, MUSIC, OPERA

We already wrote at length about the Orkest van het Oosten's name change to the Netherlands Symphony Orchestra (NSO). The curious opera grant application based on a business plan that carries huge risks also had our full attention. Permanent partner the National Travel Opera was not amused.

Meanwhile, the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra is also fighting the NSO. In the capital city, they think the Enschede orchestra's new name is very much like its own n...

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Distress call for theatre school Roosendaal at last minute, arts venue Veenendaal scrapped Discount news from all regions

by one of our members
9 November 20118 July 2016
9 min read
ACTUAL

(...) The Youth Theatre School Roosendaal received a project subsidy of 36,779 euros from the municipality in 2010 and 2011. The school also fulfils a regional function. Forty per cent of its 330 pupils come from the surrounding villages. The proposal is to end the subsidy from 1 January. It was only this week that this apparently dawned on Hofplein's management. Which immediately started a...

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Trouw: Ernst Veen fears big deficits New Church, Holland Symfonia in kicking seat

by one of our members
6 November 201129 March 2022
2 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Ernst Veen The Trouw commentary addresses the problems that are now beginning to be felt even at the top of the arts sector: Cultural entrepreneurship can produce great things. Ernst Veen, who brought De Nieuwe Kerk and Hermitage Amsterdam to great fruition as new exhibition spaces in the capital, is a successful example. Yesterday, he complained in...

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Elektra: only five singers worldwide who can handle this part. Linda Watson sings scathingly Nietzschean.

by one of our members
24 October 201130 March 2022
4 min read
ACTUAL, For members only

Elektra - stage photo: Hans van den Bogaard The fourth revival of Elektra by De Nederlandse Opera is over halfway through. In the final performances, two fresh dramatic sopranos take over. Why is an opera revived, even as many as four times? At the sleep-inducing Don Giovanni in the previous season of De Nederlandse Opera - also a revival - was...

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#HF11 Playing with Nietzsche's moustache in opera fantasy by Wolfgang Rihm

by Henri Drost
9 June 201113 February 2019
3 min read
Holland Festival, MUSIC, OPERA, SPECIALS

An opera based on texts by Nietzsche, and then start with loud laughter and main character N trying to catch two water nymphs. Wait a minute, that's Wagner! Well, at Wagner's Rheingold involves three Rhine daughters, but the similarity is too great to be coincidental. And neither is this one, but in the first minutes of Wolfgang Rihm's Dionysos is much more going on. Here is a composer at work who not only plays with text and music, but also with centuries of cultural history and knows how to add jokes to it. It is to get intoxicated.

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