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WIM HENDERICKXAquarius’ DreamRevelations

LIESA VAN DER AAParadiseHell

ANNELIES VAN PARYSAnd you must sufferRUHEThe Diary of the One Who DisappearedPrivate View

LUIGI DE ANGELISЗМЕЯ

IVO VAN HOVEKings of WarThe Diary of the One Who DisappearedRoman Tragedies

WOUTER VAN LOOYEarth diverDie ZauberflöteRevelations

NAOMI BEELDENSLa Voix humaine

CLARON MCFADDENSecretsLilithNightshade: Aubergine

WENDE SNIJDERSWende

CONTENTS

A house full of voices 3 Artists 4 Partners & co-producers 5

NEW PRODUCTIONS Earth diver 6 Die Zauberflöte 8 Nightshade: Aubergine 10 Wende 12 The Diary of the One Who Disappeared 14 ЗМЕЯ 16 Aquarius’ Dream 18 Revelations 20

ON TOUR La Voix humaine 22 Secrets 23 Lilith 24 Listen to the silence 25 And you must suffer 26 Polar Night 27 Kings of War 28 RUHE 29 Private View 30 Roman Tragedies 31 Le coupeur d’eau 32

TRANSLAB Windischgrätz 42 Abendrot 42 ParadiseHell 43 Medeamaterial 44 Matterhonger 45 Matterhorn 46 Opera21 47 Songbook 48 Info 57 Calendar 59

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WIM HENDERICKX 18 Aquarius’ Dream 20 Revelations

LIESA VAN DER AA 43 ParadiseHell ANNELIES VAN PARYS 26 And you must suffer 29 RUHE 14 The Diary of the One Who Disappeared 30 Private View

LUIGI DE ANGELIS 16 ЗМЕЯ

IVO VAN HOVE 28 Kings of War 14 The Diary of the One Who Disappeared 31 Roman Tragedies

WOUTER VAN LOOY 22 La Voix humaine 25 Listen to the silence 6 Earth diver 8 Die Zauberflöte 20 Revelations

NAOMI BEELDENS 22 La Voix humaine

CLARON MCFADDEN 23 Secrets 24 Lilith 27 Polar Night 48 Songbook 10 Nightshade: Aubergine 18 Aquarius’ Dream

WENDE SNIJDERS 12 Wende

A HOUSE FULL OF VOICES

“Over the past 20 years, Muziektheater Transparent has charted an impres-sive course in which there has been room for both experimentation and established values.” This remark was part of the Music-Theatre’s Assessment Committee’s preliminary advice on our plan for the 2017-2021 period. This motivates us even more for the future. As our aim is to profile ourselves even more pronouncedly as a music-theatre company in which the voice plays a central role, we are inviting artists whose practice centres on vocal work: Claron McFadden, Naomi Beeldens, Els Mondelaers, Liesa Van der Aa and Wende Snijders, as well as our in-house composers Wim Henderickx and Annelies Van Parys. Three powerful directors are taking charge of the major-ity of our productions: Ivo van Hove, Wouter Van Looy and Luigi De Angelis. Finally, we will be collaborating closely with a number of leading ensembles: B’Rock Orchestra, HERMESensemble, Bl!NDMAN and Collegium Vocale Gent. A new part of our operations is the translab label, with which we offer young people the opportunity to develop their own projects with our support. Our own workspace in Borgerhout, Matterhorn, is playing a key role in this. We are look-ing forward to an exciting trajectory with these artists and expect all this cross- pollination to yield some innovative productions. We hope to have the opportunity to welcome you on a regular basis during the course of the 2016-17 season.

Marking the death of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (1934-2016), Muziektheater Transparant’s honorary chairmanWhen Muziektheater Transparant embarked on a new course in 1994, we chose to perform a triptych of Peter Maxwell Davies’ compositions, Eights Songs for a Mad King, Miss Donnithorne’s Maggot and Vesalii Icones. Prior to this, his work had barely been performed in Belgium. Max, as the composer was known to everyone, attended our premiere and accepted our request to become our honorary president. We performed his children’s opera Cinderella, his bizarre social satire Resurrection and his masterpiece The Lighthouse. The singer Els Mondelaers was magnificent in The Medium and we presented the world premiere of Mr Emmet takes a walk, a work that he composed especially for us. Peter Maxwell Davies created a fascinating kind of music theatre, simple in terms of its scenic requirements, but socially relevant and with a particular focus on the possibilities of the human voice. These elements still underpin our work today and we are therefore dedicating this coming season to him.

On behalf of the whole crew of Muziektheater TransparantGuy Coolen, General and artistic director

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A HOUSE FOR ARTISTS

* Wim Henderickx [1962] teaches composi- tion at the conservatoires in Antwerp and Amsterdam. His work has won awards both at home and abroad. As Muziektheater Trans- parant’s in-house composer (since 1996) he composed The Queen Without a Country (2014) amongst others. This production won an MTN award in 2015. – www.wimhenderickx.com

* Liesa Van der Aa [1986] is one of the most versatile artists of her generation. She has created some unique border-crossing musical projects. She composed the music for Van den vos (2013). Her second album WOTH (2014) also toured as a music-theatre performance. – www.liesavanderaa.be

* Annelies Van Parys [1975] studied compo-sition at the Royal Conservatoire in Ghent and in 2011 was awarded the title of Honorary Ambassador. As an in-house composer at Muziektheater Transparant (since 2007) her work has included the composition of her first opera Private View (2015), which has won a number of international prizes. – www.anneliesvanparys.be

* Luigi De Angelis [1974] is a director, set designer and musician. In 1992, together with Chiara Lagani, he set up the company Fanny & Alexander in Ravenna. For Muziek- theater Transparant, he directed the youth opera In bocca al lupo in 2015. – fannyalexander.e-production.org

* Ivo van Hove [1958] is both artistic director and stage director at Toneelgroep Amsterdam. He has garnered many awards for his impres- sive artistic career. Muziektheater Transpa- rant has entered into a multi-annual colla- boration with Toneelgroep Amsterdam for

INTERNATIONAL

Asko|Schönberg

Cappella Amsterdam

ChorWerk Ruhr

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Fanny & Alexander

Holland Festival

Jheronimus Bosch 500

Korzo Producties

Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg

Luzerner Theater

Nationale Opera Amsterdam

National Opera Bergen

Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Opera Days Rotterdam

Ruhrtriennale

Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop

Studio Minailo

Theaterfestival Boulevard

Théâtre National de Chaillot

The Barbican

Toneelgroep Amsterdam

Wiener Festwochen

Wroclaw National Forum of Music

Zeeland Nazomerfestival

33 ¹/³ Collective

NATIONAL

Aventura Musica

BL!NDMAN

B’Rock Orchestra

Collegium Vocale Gent

Concertgebouw Brugge

deFilharmonie

De Munt/La Monnaie

de Roovers

deSingel

Escautville

HERMESensemble

JazzLab Series

Kaaitheater

Klarafestival

Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen

Kunstenfestivaldesarts

Kunsthuis Vlaanderen

kunstZ

lab.oratorium

Laika

MAfestival

Post uit Hessdalen

Wintervuur

Zonzo Compagnie

PARTNERS & CO-PRODUCERSARTISTS

performances, including Kings of War (2015) and The Diary of the One Who Disappeared (2017). – www.tga.nl

* Wouter Van Looy [1966] is a stage director at Muziektheater Transparant, is joint artistic director along with Guy Coolen, and is responsible for TRANSLAB. In addition, he is artistic director at Zonzo Compagnie and the founder of the international youth music festival BIG BANG. He is highly active in the international music-theatre circuit and his productions, such as The Queen Without a Country (2014), have won numerous awards.– www.transparant.be

* Naomi Beeldens [1988] has performed in Muziektheater Transparant’s youth opera many times and sang in Porcelain (2010). In 2015, she completed her studies in clas-sical song at the Royal Conservatoire in Antwerp with the music-theatre project La Voix humaine. – www.transparant.be

* The soprano Claron McFadden [1961] studied song at the Eastman School of Music in New York. She is known for her wide-ranging repertoire, ranging from baroque to traditional and contemporary music. For Muziektheater Transparant she created Lilith (2013) and Secrets (2015), her first music-theatre projects as a theatre maker. – www.claronmcfadden.com

* The Dutch singer-songwriter Wende Snijders [1978] graduated from the Amsterdam Theaterschool in 2004. Her debut album Quand tu dors (2004) won many awards. Since Wende sings Winterreise (2015), she has also worked on joint projects in the classical circuit. – www.wende.nu

IN COLLABORATION WITH

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EARTH DIVER

NEW PRODUCTION NEW PRODUCTION

The driving force behind Earth diver was the discourse of two controversial philosophers who have a whole-hearted aversion to the way the global crisis is being handled: Peter Sloterdijk and Slavoj Žižek. While the former urges us not to wait for a God who will not come and to change our lives ourselves, the latter sees a connection between the stages of a grieving process and our handling of the crisis: from denial to anger to acceptance. The director Wouter Van Looy puts a chorus on stage that sings the work of Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672): religious music that offered comfort and immortality at times when plague and war were devastating Germany. The composer Nikolaus Brass and the vocal artist Phil Minton offer a counterpoint to this and evoke a world the way it was, the way it is, and the way it perhaps will be. The audience seeks out a place in the space, where the video artist Wim Catrysse flanks Schütz’s musical world with images from Barentsburg, an isolated Russian outpost where coal is mined to the present day. The mining activ-ity there is no longer profitable and God has been dissolved in a ‘world of markets and battle’. Neverthe-less, people keep on digging there in a state of denial: deeper and deeper, and on the brink of exhaustion.

21 > 24.09.2016ESSENRuhrtriennalewww.ruhrtriennale.de

During the 2017-18 season, Earth diver will be going on tour in Flanders.

We are organising a visit on 24 September 2016 for anyone who would like to see Earth diver at the Ruhrtriennale. For more information, go to www.transparant.be/en/visit.

Composers Heinrich Schütz / Nikolaus Brass Musical director Florian Helgath Conceived and directed by Wouter Van Looy Video Wim Catrysse Soundscapes David Van Bouwel Costume design Johanna TrudzinskiPerformer and vocalist Phil Minton Chorus ChorWerk Ruhr Ensemble B’Rock Orchestra

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant and ChorWerk Ruhr for the Ruhrtriennale and co-produced by Klarafestival, Opera Days Rotterdam, MAfestival, B’Rock Orchestra and Escautville. With the support of the Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF).

“The only catastrophe that

will convince everyone will be the catastrophe

that no one survives.”

Peter Sloterdijk

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DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE

The arias and fairy-tale figures in Die Zauberflöte are part of our collective memory, but beyond its light-hearted, folksy nature, there are also a series of enig-matic, underlying layers to this opera by Mozart (1756-1791). Despite numerous interpretations, this master-piece has remained extremely popular, and it challeng-es directors time and time again. In his version for the Luzerner Theater opera house in Switzerland, Wouter Van Looy focuses on two elements of this fairy-tale opera that give it an overwhelmingly contemporary relevance. On the one hand, Die Zauberflöte explores in depth a clash between two social models, in which a spiritual movement is faced with a decadent regime personified by the ‘Queen of the Night’. Power is put in the hands of Sarastro, a leader who legitimises his absolute power and violent actions by means of spir-itual values. On the other hand, Die Zauberflöte also reads as the initiation ceremony of a boy who is chosen, converts and treads in Sarastro’s footsteps. Following on from The Queen Without a Country, which won an MTN Award, Wouter Van Looy is once again working with Freija Van Esbroeck, Johanna Trudzinski and the video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer.

17 / 19 / 23 / 26 / 29.12.201602 / 04 / 06 / 08 / 12 / 21.01.201703 / 08 / 22.02.201705.03.2017LUCERNEwww.luzernertheater.ch

Die Zauberflöte is the first production in a series of joint projects with the Lucerne opera house.

For the time being, Die Zauberflöte is only being performed in Lucerne. We will be organising a visit during the weekend of 17 December 2016. For more information, go to www.transparant.be/en/visit.

Composer Mozart Librettist Emanuel Schikaneder Musical director Clemens HeilDirector Wouter Van Looy Set design Freija Van Esbroeck and Wouter Van LooyVideo Kurt d’Haeseleer Costume design Johanna Trudzinski Sarastro Alessio CacciamaniTamino Denzil Delaere Queen of the Night Diana Schnürpel Pamina Magdalena RisbergFirst Lady Rebecca Krynski Second Lady Karin Torbijörnsdóttir Third Lady Sarah Alexandra Hudarew Papageno Bernt Ola Volungholen Papagena Maja Bader Monostatos Robert Maszl Speaker and Second Armed Man Jason Cox Chorus Chor des Luzerner Theater Music performed by Luzerner Sinfonieorchester

Produced by Luzerner Theater, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant.

Mozart’s fairy-tale

reckoning with ancient times

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NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE

In Nightshade: Aubergine, Claron McFadden goes in search of the common roots of our various cultures by focusing on one of the most iconoclastic ingredients on the culinary scene: the aubergine. Despite the huge migration that it has experienced, this age-old fruit from the nightshade family has always managed to adapt without losing its striking identity. Documen-tary maker Lisa Tahon and McFadden have followed this route back to its origins: from the West via the Mediterranean countries to the Far East. During her journey, she stays as a guest in local people’s homes in various different regions. At each stop, she is taught a traditional dish and song, and she takes the recipes and melodies with her. Together with her ideal group of musical colleagues, drawn from a wide range of ‘nightshade cultures’ – Roma, Belgian, Iraqi, Greek and Afro-Anatolian – she is contributing a new chap-ter to the tradition of migration. Nightshade: Aubergi-ne shows how mutual cross-pollination can strength-en our common identity, and allows the audience to experience the rich tradition of aubergine-based cuisine, in combination with live music and a travel documentary.

20.02.2017BRUGESwww.concertgebouw.be

31.03 & 01 / 02.04.2017AMSTERDAMwww.ostadeadam.nl

29.04.2017ANTWERPFestival Opera21www.desingel.be

13 / 14.05.2017ROTTERDAMOpera Days Rotterdam www.operadagenrotterdam.nl

With Nightshade: Aubergine, Concertgebouw Brugge will be celebrating its fifteenth anni-versary on 20 February 2017.

Concept and vocals Claron McFadden Video Lisa Tahon Directing advice and coaching Sjaron Minailo Accordion Tuur Florizoone Violin and guitar Tcha Limberger Qanun and oud Osama Abdulrasol Bass and bouzouki Michel Hatzigeorgiou Percussion Shahin During Dramaturge Tobias Kokkelmans

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by Concertgebouw Brugge and Opera Days Rotterdam. In collaboration with Studio Minailo.

“I believe that there are two things that all cultures possess and that link us at

a primary level: food and music.”

Claron McFadden

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WENDE

Over the coming years, Wende Snijders and Muziek-theater Transparant will be collaborating intensive-ly. In recent years, Wende has developed into one of the Netherlands’ most versatile and controver-sial artists and performers. Whether it’s pop, elec-tro, classical or contemporary music, or even a film, she always succeeds in moving her audience deeply. Wende’s passion for telling stories in her own voice, cutting through all possible genres, is the common thread that runs through everything that she does. Whether performed in a theatre or a club, Wende’s productions are bursting with expression. In her new performance, Wende, ‘Storytelling to Music’ as she herself describes it, once again plays a central role. She has asked renowned writers and musicians from both home and abroad, including Dimitri Verhulst and Tom Lanoye, to write new stories and songs with her. With them, she will be reflecting on herself, the future, the language and the world in which she lives. The result is certain to be an intimate, surprising and occasionally confronting journey.

Concept, composition and vocals Wende Snijders Authors Dimitri Verhulst, Tom Lanoye and others

Produced by WENDE, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant. In collaboration with Behoud de Begeerte.

“In the theatre, everything falls into

place with Wende.”NRC, 2014

10.02.2017 (try-out)DORDRECHTwww.energiehuis.nl

16.02.2017 (try-out)NIJVERDALwww.zinintheater.nl

17.02.2017 (try-out)MIDDELBURGwww.zeelandtheaters.nl

18.02.2017 (try-out)BERGEN OP ZOOMwww.gebouw-t.nl

22.02.2017 (try-out)DOETINCHEMwww.amphion.nl

23.02.2017 (try-out) LELYSTADwww.agora-lelystad.nl

24.02.2017 (try-out)MEPPELwww.schouwburgogterop.nl

26.02.2017 (try-out)KAMPENwww.stadsgehoorzaalkampen.nl

28.02.2017 (try-out)HOOFDDORPwww.demeerse.com

02.03.2017 (première)AMSTERDAMwww.paradiso.nl

03.03.2017VEENENDAALwww.lampegiet.nl

09.03.2017HOORNwww.hetpark.nl

10.03.2017GRONINGENwww.de-oosterpoort.nl

12.03.2017LEYDENwww.stadspodia.nl

16 / 17.03.2017THE HAGUEwww.paard.nl

18.03.2017OSS www.lievekamp.nl

22.03.2017ALKMAARwww.theaterdevest.nl

23.03.2017LEEUWARDENwww.harmonie.nl

25.03.2017DRACHTENwww.lawei.nl

29.03.2017BREDAwww.chasse.nl

30.03.2017ZWOLLEwww.zwolsetheaters.nl

31.03.2017EINDHOVENwww.parktheater.nl

01.04.2017MAASTRICHTwww.theateraanhetvrijthof.nl

07.04.2017APELDOORNwww.orpheus.nl

08.04.2017ENSCHEDEwww.wilminktheater.nl

11.04.2017ROTTERDAMwww.luxortheater.nl

13.04.2017DELFTwww.theaterdeveste.nl

14.04.2017UTRECHTwww.stadsschouwburg-utrecht.nl

15.04.2017HAARLEMwww.theater-haarlem.nl

21.04.2017‘S-HERTOGENBOSCHwww.verkadefabriek.nl

22.04.2017ARNHEMwww.arnhemsepodia.nl

25.04.2017LOUVAINwww.30cc.be

29.04.2017GOUDAwww.goudseschouwburg.nl

30.04.2017AMSTERDAMwww.paradiso.nl

22.05.2017ANTWERPAntwerpse Klepperswww.toneelhuis.be

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THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED

The Diary of the One Who Disappeared can best be described as an intimate self-portrait. In this melan-choly tale of the village boy Janik, who leaves every-thing behind to follow a gypsy girl, Leoš Janáček (1854-1928) saw his feelings for his muse Kamila Stösslová mirrored. Will Janik’s longing for passion free him from a stifling environment? Or will he throw away his whole existence for an illusion? Written in the period in which his relationship with the much young-er Kamila was creating a furore, Janáček’s poetry becomes a mix of cruelty and tenderness. His passion for his new love, and the poetry of the folk language, piano and voice, inspired him to create a song cycle in 22 scenes. The unique nature of the score lies in its minimalistic nature: there is no dramatic treatment, mise-en-scène or orchestra. Ivo van Hove directs the leading singers Ed Lyon and Silvia de La Muela. Taking her fascination with the voice as her starting point, Annelies Van Parys is composing a new piece as an answer to this gripping tale about detachment.

11 / 12.03.2017BRUSSELSKlarafestivalwww.kaaitheater.be

22.04.2017ANTWERPFestival Opera21www.operaballet.be

05 > 09.05.2017LONDONwww.roh.org.uk

12 / 13.05.2017ROTTERDAMOpera Days Rotterdamwww.operadagenrotterdam.nl

21.05.2017AMSTERDAMwww.muziekgebouw.nl

Composers Leoš Janácek / Annelies Van Parys Director Ivo van Hove Set design Jan Versweyveld Costume design An D’Huys Tenor Ed Lyon / Paul O’Neill [22.04]Mezzo-soprano Silvia de La Muela Actor Hugo Koolschijn Pianist Lada ValesovaChorus Members of De Munt’s Choral Academy Dramaturge Krystian Lada

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by Klarafestival, De Munt/La Monnaie, Kaaitheater, Toneelgroep Amsterdam, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg and Opera Days Rotterdam.

“No one can escape

his destiny.” Leoš Janáček, The Diary of the One Who Disappeared.

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THE RIOT OF SEDUCTION

Together with the adventurous musicians from the Berlin-based Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and the young singers from translab, the Italian thea-tre maker Luigi De Angelis stages an evocation of the musical world of Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), the founder of Les Ballets Russes. ЗМЕЯ (snake) is a performance about ‘the brilliant general of art’, who in his productions linked artists from various disciplines. As a flamboyant charlatan, he had all the components of the ideal patron, except money. Yet he succeeded in seducing the audience and creating a revolutionary aesthetic for music and dance. With the ambiguity of a snake, he injected a new hedonistic and aesthetic sensitivity into the audience’s conscious-ness. Whirling like a musical vortex, the new produc-tion ЗМЕЯ will spread through the concert hall and beyond. The audience will be carried away by a capri-cious and provocative spectacle, which begins as an installation but is gradually transformed into a perfor-mance that takes in the whole space – which is exactly the way Diaghilev would have wanted it.

17.03.17BRUGESKlarafestivalwww.concertgebouw.be

19.03.17ANTWERPKlarafestivalwww.desingel.be

Composers Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky and othersConcept Luigi De Angelis and Michael Rauter Musical director Michael Rauter Director, lighting and set design Luigi De Angelis Musical and scenic performance Solistenensemble KaleidoskopWith the TRANSLAB singers.

Produced by Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and Fanny & Alexander, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant / TRANSLAB, Klarafestival, Concertgebouw Brugge and deSingel.

An ode to the visionary

innovator Diaghilev

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AQUARIUS’ DREAM

Aquarius’ Dream is about the great, the elusive and the supernatural. The title alludes to hope and to man’s focus on the future. This sweeping symphony is inspi- red by the celestial bodies and also alludes to the human relationship with the divine, the cosmos and beyond. Aquarius’ Dream consists of three large sec-tions, in between each of which is an interlude inspired by a dream. The title of this work is also the title of the third and final part. The soprano Claron McFadden will be giving a solo performance alongside deFilharmonie symphony orchestra. Jorrit Tamminga’s electronics act as both a complement and a counterpart to the orches-tra. With his second symphony, just as in his Symphony N°1, Wim Henderickx tries to reconcile the vast sym-phonic form of the past with a contemporary interpre-tation of it. Thanks to the staging, the spatial arrange-ment of the orchestra and the electronics, the audi-ence will be immersed in a broad-based sensory ex- perience of sound, time and space. Wim Henderickx was commissioned to compose Aquarius’ Dream by deFilharmonie, where he is artist in residence.

18.03.2017ANTWERPwww.elisabethcenter.be

Composer Wim Henderickx Musical director Thierry Fischer Electronics Jorrit Tamminga Vocals Claron McFadden Music performed by deFilharmonie

Produced by deFilharmonie and Muziektheater Transparant.

The first world premiere for

deFilharmonie in the renovated

Elizabeth Hall

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REVELATIONS

Revelations is a multimedia project based on the strik-ing visions of the 13th-century poetess and mystic Hadewijch d’Anvers (s.d. – 1248). Hers are among the most astonishing writings in the history of our liter-ature. In her Visions, in the tradition of mediaeval Christian mysticism, she describes an ecstatic loving relationship with the divine Other; the key word is passion. In a setting in which an individual is placed opposite a chorus, Revelations seeks out the power of visionary experiences and ecstasy in our contempo-rary context. The composer Wim Henderickx is writ-ing a new work without words in which we hear the inspiration taken from mediaeval and Renaissance music for female voices. The HERMESensemble and Jorrit Tamminga’s electronic music are given an important role in the score. Following Void and The Queen Without a Country, Henderickx is once again collaborating with the director Wouter Van Looy, who for Revelations is creating an immaterial installation using light and smoke in which the images made by the video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer make reference to Hadewijch’s mysticism.

21 / 23.04.2017ANTWERPFestival Opera21www.desingel.be

25.04.2017MALINESFestival van Vlaanderen Mechelenwww.mechelenhoortstemmen.be

20.05.2017ROTTERDAMOpera Days Rotterdamwww.operadagenrotterdam.nl

Composer and musical director Wim Henderickx Authors Hadewijch d’Anvers / Erwin Mortier Director Wouter Van Looy Video Kurt d’Haeseleer Costume design Johanna Trudzinski Lighting design Peter Quasters Electronics Jorrit Tamminga Soprano Lore Binon Chorus Cappella Amsterdam Ensemble HERMESensemble Dramaturge Veerle Fraeters

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by deSingel, Opera Days Rotterdam, HERMESensemble and Cappella Amsterdam.

“Ende dat aescijn dat hi doe hadde

ghesienlect, dat was ontsienlec ende

onverdrachlec te gherijnne in siene.”

Hadewijch d’Anvers, Visions.

“And the countenance he presented

was invisible and unendurable to glance at with the eyes.”

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LA VOIX HUMAINE

The soprano Naomi Beeldens is presenting her own interpretation of La Voix humaine by the French com- poser Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) on the basis of a written work by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). In this monologue in the form of a telephone conversation, a woman makes a final attempt to win back her beloved. She creates a web of words – fearful, yearning, hyster-ical – as a safety net in her struggle for survival in the looming void. The gradual realisation that her lover has made an irrevocable choice for someone else drives her to despair, until the connection is literally broken off. The stage is designed as a mind-map in which the props and chalked lines are the only remaining tangi-ble evidence of a lost relationship. In an obscure, film-like space, the woman seems to be staging her own death and in an endless repetition tries obsessively to keep her love alive. In the background, a female dancer represents the absent lover. The pianist and composer Jeroen Malaise assists Naomi in her inter-pretation and performance of Poulenc’s unique score, and the director Wouter Van Looy coaches her in her distracted monologue.

28.05.2016ROTTERDAMOpera Days Rotterdamwww.operadagenrotterdam.nl

28 / 29.09.2016TBILISITbilisi International Festivalwww.tbilisiinternational.com

06.05.2017LIERwww.lierscultuurcentrum.be

Composer Francis Poulenc Author Jean Cocteau Director and set design Wouter Van Looy Lighting design Peter Quasters Costumes Lotte Stek Soprano Naomi Beeldens Piano Jeroen Malaise Dancer Sheila Rojas / Cristina Henríquez Laurent

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant in association with Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen.

SECRETS

As a source of inspiration for their intimist musical production Secrets, the soprano Claron McFadden and the Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio chose… secrets. They gathered anonymous stories from the general public and took inspiration from the widely-varying character of the more than a hundred tales that were sent in. The result is a musical and visual mosaic in which Claron McFadden, singing, whispering and laughing, merges sorrowful, mischie-vous and cynical passages into one another. Each indi-vidual secret has a universal dimension. Secrets shows in a poetic manner that these hidden thoughts link us all together. Claron McFadden and the trio give each secret its own rhythm and musicality: melancholy, restrained, heart-rending or playful. This trio has for years been exploring the boundaries between cham-ber music, jazz and melancholically-tinged tapestries of sound, eschewing neither experiment nor impro-visation. In their collaboration with Claron McFadden, their delight in playing creates sparks on stage.

04.06.2016HEERENVEENOranjewoud Festivalwww.oranjewoudfestival.nl

05.08.2016LONDONwww.tete-a-tete.org.uk

12.01.2017ANTWERPwww.zuidpool.be

14.01.2017BRUSSELSwww.riverjazz.be

15.01.2017TERNEUZENwww.porgyenbess.nl

17.01.2017CHERBOURGwww.trident-scenenationale.com

19.01.2017ENSCHEDEwww.wilminktheater.nl

20.01.2017HASSELTwww.ccha.be

21.01.2017TILBURGwww.theaterstilburg.nl

26.01.2017NANTERREwww.nanterre.fr

28.01.2017LEYDENwww.hothousejazz.nl

30.03.2017MOUSCRONwww.centrecultureldemouscron.be

12 > 14.04.2017LYONwww.croix-rousse.com

Composers Tuur Florizoone, Michel Massot and Marine HorbaczewskiConcept and vocals Claron McFadden Set and lighting design Peter Quasters

Chromatic accordion Tuur Florizoone Tuba and trombone Michel Massot Cello Marine Horbaczewski Dramaturge Tobias Kokkelmans

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, JazzLab Series and Aventura Musica, co-produced by Opera Days Rotterdam.

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LILITH

Claron McFadden’s first music-theatre project as a theatre-maker tells the tragic tale of Lilith, Adam’s first wife, created simultaneously with him and on an equal footing. When she refuses to subject herself to him, he rejects her. Having been humiliated by Adam and abandoned by God, Lilith leaves Paradise and wanders endlessly in search of love, taking a countless number of lovers but never able to forget Adam entirely. By combining various media and musical styles, McFadden builds up a dramatic tension in which she, as the licentious Lilith, confronts Adam, who addresses her from a projection screen. The account of their failed relationship is larded with memories of their most intimate moments. Words of love become words of regret, and desires they have never come to terms with end in accusations. Accompanied by the compos-er and pianist Dimitar Bodurov, Claron McFadden impressively portrays this solitary woman who is both vulnerable and assertive in her conviction. The sudden death of Claron’s opposite number, Jeroen Willems, in December 2012, just a few months after the premiere, made Lilith a particularly moving document.

10.08.2016VARNARadar Festivaldimitarbodurov.wix.com/radar-festival-2016

Concept, vocals and performer Claron McFadden Composer, pianist and performer Dimitar Bodurov Librettist Carola Luther Video Frans Weisz Set and lighting design Tom Schenk Costumes Zoe Monti Actor and singer in video Jeroen Willems

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, Holland Festival and Opera Days Rotterdam, co-produced by Concertgebouw Brugge, Klarafestival and Korzo Producties.

“ Lilith should have been in the Bible.” Claron McFadden, Theatermaker 2012

LISTEN TO THE SILENCE

Listen to the silence is an interactive performance for children – and adults – that immerses you in the intri-guing musical world of John Cage (1912-1992). This American philosopher-composer thoroughly over-turned the conventions of musical history with his poetry of freedom, chance and silence. In his view, everything we do is music. On the basis of his philos-ophy, Listen to the Silence builds up a playful, imag-inary world inhabited by ungovernable objects such as mixers, music boxes, quacking ducks and rustling plastic bags. Aided by projected images, the pianist Jeroen Malaise and actor Tjyying Liu guide the audi-ence on a voyage of discovery in an unpredictable forest full of sounds, to the point where a merry musical chaos unfolds. On the way, you discover that silence is full of sounds and that your surroundings become magical when you learn to listen to everyday sounds. Or, like John Cage, you seek out sounds you have never previously heard and like a real inventor compose your own musical landscape.

24.08.2016GRONINGEN

Noorderzonwww.noorderzon.nl

20 > 27.11.2016MANNHEIM

Festival Happy New Earswww.nationaltheater-mannheim.de

Composer John Cage Director and set design Wouter Van Looy Director and video Letizia Renzini Performer Tjyying Liu Piano Jeroen Malaise

Produced by Zonzo Compagnie, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant,

BigBang Festival, De Werf, Rataplan and Acht Brücken – Musik für Köln.

“Fragile and adventurous.” De Standaard, 2011

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AND YOU MUST SUFFER

Because of its supposed anti-Semitic nature, Bach’s St. John Passion is the most controversial of his Passions. The libretto combines the Bible story of the Passion with poetry, while in the music narrative recitatives alternate with choruses. The result is intense and dra-matic. In And you must suffer, the director Pierre Audi brings Bach’s themes up to date. He sets his reflections on suffering and compassion against a background of the fanaticism and moral and democratic deficit of our times. The initial inspiration for his sober stage design was Viae Crucis, in which the artist Wim Delvoye sees through everything using X-rays and thoroughly undermines religious truth. The Palestinian-Israeli composer Samir Odeh-Tamimi moulds the fiery words of The Arab Apocalypse by the Lebanese poetess Etel Adnan into a musical form in which Arabic influences are subtly absorbed into contemporary sounds. Our resident composer Annelies Van Parys has written a short prologue and epilogue in which noise and silence represent the immeasurability of love and loss. An all-embracing work of art with the medita-tive intensity of sublime verses.

11.09.2016WROCLAWFestival Wratislavia Cantanswww.nfm.wroclaw.pl

28 / 29.03.2017AMSTERDAMFestival Opera Forwardwww.muziekgebouw.nl

Composers J.S. Bach / Samir Odeh-Tamimi and Annelies Van Parys Musical director Andreas Spering Director (mise-en-espace) Pierre Audi Visuals Wim Delvoye Set and costume design Roel Van Berckelaer Video Mirjam Devriendt and Vincent Dunoyer Lighting design Peter Quasters Evangelist Jakob Pilgram Christ Dominik Köninger Soprano Grace Davidson Alto Benno Schachtner Tenor Magnus Staveland Bass Tomáš Král Chorus NFM Choir Ensemble B’Rock Orchestra

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant and B’Rock Orchestra, co-produced by Klarafestival, Kaaitheater, De Munt/La Monnaie, Wroclaw National Forum of Music and the Polish Institute. With a composition commissioned from Samir Odeh-Tamimi by Klarafestival / Flanders Festival Brussels and from Annelies Van Parys by Muziektheater Transparant.

“ Theatre as a ritual” De Volkskrant, 2016

POLAR NIGHT

On Sørøya, a remote Norwegian island far beyond the Arctic Circle, the polar night of the winter elim-inates the distinction between day and night and sudden snow-storms make it impossible to go outside. Five artists from the collective Post uit Hessdalen – a photographer, a video film-maker, a theatre-maker, a musician and a lighting designer – retreated there for several weeks to examine our experience of time and our desire for tranquillity and stillness, far from our hectic world. In the audiovisual production Polar Night, they reconstruct what it means to liberate your-self entirely from time, without daylight, clock or any familiar frame of reference, and what happens to your mind when the loss of day and night deprives you of a solid foothold, all on the basis of extracts from diaries and their own films and photos. Polar Night is also a musical voyage: the voice of the versatile soprano Claron McFadden contributes a many-layered sound-track packed with sound experiments. In the darkness, guided by the narrator’s voice, the images of nature and shimmering soundscapes lead the audience on a trip into timelessness.

29.10.2016HASSSELT

Festival Nordic nightwww.ccha.be

03.11.2016ANTWERP

www.villanella.be

03.02.2017KORTRIJK

www.schouwburgkortrijk.be

20.05.2017ROTTERDAM

Opera Days Rotterdamwww.operadagenrotterdam.nl

Concept and creation Stijn Grupping, Liesbet Grupping, Frederik Meulyzer, Ine Van Baelen, Lucas Van Haesbroeck Singer in video Claron McFadden Voice-off Geert Van Rampelberg

Produced by Post uit Hessdalen, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant and Wintervuur.

“A plunge into a night without end.” De Standaard, 2015

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KINGS OF WAR

It is the view of the director Ivo van Hove that the way the notion of leadership is shaped is one of the major challenges of the decades to come. In Kings of War, he combines three of Shakespeare’s history plays – Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III – to form an explosive com- pilation on the theme of power and responsibility. On the basis of the successive kings, Henry V, an ambitious soldier, Henry VI, a cry-baby with no backbone, and Richard III, a power-drunk intriguer, van Hove out-lines the way power is linked to the character of the ruler and to the purpose for which it is employed. The intrigues between the kings and their retinues of coun-sellors and relatives are played out in an underground bunker and a labyrinth behind the stage that is made visible to the audience on video screens. The political games of manipulation, conspiracy and murder also reverberate in the dramatic score composed by Eric Sleichim. After an international tour and a series of performances in Paris, this successful production will once again be touring in the 2016-17 season.

03 > 06.11.2016NEW YORKwww.bam.org

13 > 15.04.201718 / 19.04.201721 / 22.04.201725 / 26.04.2017 28 / 29.04.2017AMSTERDAMwww.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl

Composer Eric Sleichim Author William Shakespeare Director Ivo van Hove Set and lighting design Jan Versweyveld Video Tal Yarden Costume design An D’Huys Actors Alwin Pulinckx, Aus Greidanus jr., Bart Slegers, Chris Nietvelt, Eelco Smits, Fred Goessens, Hans Kesting, Hélène Devos, Hugo Koolschijn, Janni Goslinga, Kitty Courbois, Ramsey Nasr, Robert de Hoog, Harm Duco Schut Singer Steve Dugardin Ensemble BL!NDMAN [brass] Dramaturge Peter Van Kraaij

Produced by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant, BL!NDMAN, Holland Festival, The Barbican, Théâtre National de Chaillot and Wiener Festwochen.

“An exceptional theatre marathon.”Johan Thielemans, Cobra, 2015

RUHE

RUHE premiered during the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in 2007. It then toured the world and now we are revi- ving it for the tenth anniversary of the premiere. RUHE is based on the notorious SS, a book of interviews published by the Dutch artists Armando and Hans Sleutelaar in the 1960s, in which Dutch men and women anonymously tell of their voluntary entry into the SS. In an intimate setting, two actors sitting amongst the audience give shape to the human element in their discourse, which makes these accounts even more con- fusing and confrontational. A male chorus comprising members of Collegium Vocale Gent performs conso- ling music by Schubert in the form of harmonious part-songs. The melancholy yearning for tranquillity in the music contrasts sharply with the painful reality: beauty and horror are not necessarily mutually ex- clusive. An epilogue by Annelies Van Parys, which de- constructs Schubert’s Ruhe, schönstes Glück der Erde to form a dissonant lament, and a silent but gruesome video by David Claerbout, both refer to a seemingly buried past that is still compellingly topical.

23.02.2017BERLIN

www.radialsystem.de

25.02.2017GHENT

www.debijloke.be

Composers Franz Schubert / Annelies Van Parys Authors Armando and Hans Sleutelaar Text adapted by Tom Jansen and Josse De Pauw Conceived and directed by Josse De

Pauw Set design Herman Sorgeloos Visuals David Claerbout Actors Dirk Roofthooft and Carly Wijs Ensemble Collegium Vocale Gent

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by Kunstenfestivaldesarts and Zeeland Nazomerfestival.

“RUHE spreads disquiet and provides consolation.”De Standaard, 2007

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PRIVATE VIEW

For her first opera, Annelies Van Parys chose to take as her starting point Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Rear Window, about a murder in a block of flats. Her collab-oration with the librettist Jen Hadfield, scenarist Gaea Schoeters and director Tom Creed led to the creation of a pioneering opera that won several awards. Private View breaks with tradition, above all in the video in- stallation by the Collective 33⅓, a visual trip based on found footage from old black & white films: it is not the singers who drive the ambiguous storyline forward as autonomous protagonists, but the video projections. Van Parys’ rich score, written for an orig-inal ensemble including percussion, accordion and electric guitar, is packed with surprising turns and subtle passages. The video images, singers and music together create an atmosphere of paranoia and alien-ation in which tension and humour merge, while also playing with the spectator’s perceptions. Private View turns its gaze to our major cities, where thousands of us ‘live together’ on isolated islands, our neigh-bours remain strangers and fleeting glances into other people’s living rooms soon lead to prejudice.

11 / 12.03.2017BERGENBorealis Festivalwww.borealisfestival.no

Composer Annelies Van Parys Librettist Jen Hadfield Scenarist Gaea Schoeters Musical director Etienne Siebens Director Tom Creed Video and set concept Collective 33 ¹/³ Ensemble Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by Opera Days Rotterdam, Asko|Schönberg, Concertgebouw Brugge, National Opera Bergen, Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, Deutsche Oper Berlin, 33 ¹/³ Collective. With a composition commissioned from Annelies Van Parys by Muziektheater Transparant and Kunsthuis Opera Vlaanderen. With a libretto commissioned from Jen Hadfield by National Opera Bergen. FEDORA – Rolf Liebermann Prize for Opera 2014. SABAM Award 2015. MTN Award 2015.

“ Thrilling game of expectations.” Volkskrant, 2015

ROMAN TRAGEDIES

When it was first performed in 2007, Roman Tragedies made a huge impression. The director Ivo van Hove presented three ‘political’ plays by Shakespeare – Corio- lanus, Julius Caesar and Antony & Cleopatra – together in a six-hour performance on the subject of our visual culture, our contemporary political order and the mechanisms that underlie them. The rise and fall of a politician is shown three times. The performance is conceived as a television show in which the audience sits in the middle of the political arena, and is able to move around and follow events in Rome live on stage or on screens inside and outside the auditorium. In the orchestra pit, two members of BL!NDMAN represent the threat of war with their ominous percussion. The manipulation, murder and war taking place in Rome are regularly interrupted by advertisements and news-flashes of current events. What is real? What is fake? On the political stage, everything is simply a sham.

17 > 19.03.2017LONDON

www.barbican.org.uk

Composer Eric Sleichim Author William Shakespeare Director Ivo van Hove Set design Jan Versweyveld Video Tal Yarden Costume design Lies van Assche

Music performed by BL!NDMAN Actors Alwin Pulinckx, Bart Slegers, Chris Nietvelt, Eelco Smits, Fred Goessens, Frieda Pittoors, Gijs Scholten van Aschat, Hans Kesting,

Hélène Devos, Hugo Koolschijn, Janni Goslinga, Marieke Heebink, Maria KraakmanDramaturges Alexander Schreuder, Bart Van den Eynde and Jan Peter Gerrits

Produced by Toneelgroep Amsterdam, co-produced by Muziektheater Transparant, Holland Festival, BL!NDMAN, Kaaitheater and De Munt/La Monnaie.

“A masterly tour de force by Ivo van Hove.”Het Parool, 2007

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The series of images was made by the video artist Wim Catrysse in the Russian miners’ community in Barentsburg (Norway, October 2015) for the production 'Earth diver'.

ON TOUR

LE COUPEUR D’EAU

Le coupeur d'eau is based on Marguerite Duras’ short story of the same name, in which she zooms in on a tragic but minor incident: the collective suicide of a family following a visit from a water company official to cut off their water supply. In just a few pages, the author meticulously outlines the heat of the summer, the family’s poverty, and the indifference of the village community and the company official, who abandon a woman and her young children without the slightest compassion. The actor Dirk Roofthooft became fasci-nated by the tale and sought out the story behind the facts. Who was the man who turned off the water? Was he aware of the consequences of his action? In this compelling monologue, Roofthooft gives the man a voice. He is a broken man looking back and trying to clear his conscience. Together with the saxophonist Piet Rebel, the musician and sound designer Diederik De Cock on drums and guitar provides an explosive sound setting. Raw tones alternate with subtle sound-scapes, translating the feelings of emptiness, rage and shame into sound.

23.03.2017HERENTALSwww.schaliken.be

22.04.2017BRUSSELSwww.flagey.be

Composer Diederik De Cock in association with Piet Rebel Authors Marguerite Duras / Dirk Roofthooft Conceived and directed by Dirk Roofthooft and Diederik De Cock Actor, lyricist and video Dirk Roofthooft Sound design Diederik De CockGuitar and drums Diederik De Cock Saxophone Piet Rebel

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by deSingel and Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg.

“The first few seconds set the adrenaline flowing through your body.” De Morgen, 2013

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TRANSLAB

In translab, Muziektheater Transparant opens its doors to young makers of music theatre and offers them support, training and opportunities for crea-tion, all based at our Matterhorn workspace. In this way we make a long-term commitment to a new generation of performing artists and put them in touch with inspiring artists who act as their coach.

* As from 2016, the youth opera, an annual summer project in which youngsters between 15 and 25 years create a production, will alternate between the classi-cal and non-classical repertoires. The source of inspi-ration for the 2016 production, ParadiseHell, will be the Renaissance painter Hieronymus Bosch.

* Muziektheater Transparant has concluded an agreement with the Antwerp Conservatoire to guide students in the creation of a multidisciplinary project. Following Naomi Beeldens’ La Voix humaine, in 2016 we shall be collaborating with Ellen Van Herck, and also Lissa Meyvis and Thomas Eeckhout. In 2017 new projects will follow.

* Following Polar Night by the young collective Post uit Hessdalen, Transparant selected the project Medea- material by lab.oratorium from a series of entries by young theatre-makers. It will be produced at Matter-horn in autumn 2016.

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WINDISCHGRÄTZ PARADISEHELL

The annual youth opera will for the first time bring to- gether musicians trained in classical and non-classical music. In ParadiseHell, twenty youngsters will create a music-theatre production under the guidance of an international team of outstanding musicians and theatre-makers. The production is part of the grand commemorative project for the 500th anniversary of the death of the Dutch Renaissance painter Hierony-mus Bosch (1450-1516). The enigmatic nature of his work, resulting from his innovative visual idiom full of monstrous figures and fantastic scenes, inspired the creators in their study of our double morality and the moral quandary we find ourselves in. Founded on each individual’s own talent, a new musical language is formulated at the intersection of such varied styles as pop, 15th-century chants, contemporary classical and improvisation. The singer and violinist Liesa Van der Aa and the cellist and composer Michael Rauter, artis-tic head of the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop from Berlin, will provide the musical accompaniment for ParadiseHell. They will be collaborating with Bianca van der Schoot and Suzan Boogaerdt, the artistic leaders of Ro Theater. They are among the most contro- versial theatre-makers in the Netherlands and have caused a furore with their highly visual productions.

13 / 14.08.2016’S-HERTOGENBOSCHTheaterfestival Boulevardwww.festivalboulevard.nl

19 > 21.08.2016

ANTWERPwww.desingel.be

Musical directors Michael Rauter and Liesa Van der AaDirectors Bianca van der Schoot and Suzan Boogaerdt

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant, co-produced by Theaterfestival Boulevard, Jheronimus Bosch 500, deSingel and Koninklijk Conservatorium Antwerpen.

The German priest and poet Edouard Mörike (1804-1875) tried to escape the dullness of his profession by writing about animals that talk, mermaids, immortal knights and love. The Austrian composer Hugo Wolf set fifty-three of these poems to music. Through this work he became one of the most important composers of songs in the German language area. The singer Lissa Meyvis and pianist Thomas Eeckhout are writing a new story based on a selection of Mörike songs. Windischgrätz, the village where Hugo Wolf was born, is the name of the imaginary village where this pro-duction is set. Wouter Van Looy is the coach for this graduation project at the Antwerp Conservatoire.

12 / 13.05.2016BERCHEMZaal 7www.transparant.be/translab

ABENDROT

When Richard Strauss wrote his Vier letzte Lieder in 1948, they were to become his musical testament. Warmth and resignation resound throughout this composition, which is based on the writings of Herman Hesse and Joseph von Eichendorff in which death is the main theme. For her graduation project at the Antwerp Conservatoire, the soprano Ellen Vanherck is performing these masterpieces of German post- romanticism together with Maurice Delage's Quatre poèmes Hindous, a work from the early 20th-century French repertoire that touches on the same themes. Ellen is being coached by Wouter Van Looy in a perfor-mance that explores the boundaries between music, poetry and art. She is creating a multimedia setting with video images by Chris Meulemans. Her mother Els Janssen accompanies her on the piano.

21 / 22.06.2016ANTWERPTheater Zuidpoolwww.transparant.be/tranlab

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MEDEAMATERIAL

Intrigued by the character of Medea and on the basis of Heiner Müller’s poem Verkommenes Ufer / Medea-material / Landschaft mit Argonauten, the young theatre-makers of lab.oratorium are examining our globalised world, where everyone is under non-stop pressure to extend their own limits. Going against prevailing interpretations, they detach Medea from the question of guilt and shift the focus to the reasons for her deeds, as a social figure. What gives anyone the right to judge who is to be excluded or killed? Do knowledge and moral action go hand in hand? Heiner Müller’s writings lend themselves to a range of inter-pretations, which enables both reality and its repre-sentation to be questioned.

01 / 02.12.2016BORGERHOUTMatterhornwww.transparant.be/translab

Author Heiner Müller Conceived and directed by Aïda GabriëlsMusical arrangements by Astrid Stockman and Innerwoud Medea Astrid Stockman Double bass Innerwoud Movement artist Lieselot VanderroostSpeaker Dale Duesing Dramaturge Ylona Supèr

MATTERHONGER

In the 2015-16 season, Matterhonger was launched as a recurring event. As from the first season, this format, a glimpse into the inner workings of the creative process, turned out to be a direct hit that demanded repeti-tion. Matterhonger unites artists and the audience in a shared curiosity and it all takes place on a festive, food-oriented evening at our own rehearsal room. Actors and musicians present excerpts from a produc-tion in the make, assisted by academics, opinion- makers and/or experts who want to share their views on the theme.

Following on from the rehearsals for Nightshade: Aubergine [p. 10] and The Diary of the One Who Disap-peared [p. 14] we are organising Matterhonger #2, on the topic of migration. Ecstasy will be the theme of Matterhonger #3, as a foretaste of Revelations [p. 20], which is part of Opera21.

10.02.2017MATTERHONGER #2

07.04.2017

MATTERHONGER #3BORGERHOUT

Matterhornwww.transparant.be

Enrol at matterhonger@transparant.be

Doors open at 19:00Starting time 19:30

Price €25 (including food and drink)

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MATTERHORN

Since 2014, Muziektheater Transparant has shared a workspace called Matterhorn in Borgerhout with de Roovers, Laika and kunstZ. All four of these compa-nies want to relate to our increasingly diverse society on the basis of a common commitment. The location of Matterhorn was thus in part determined by its sur-roundings, a multicultural neighbourhood. In this regard, the collaboration with kunstZ, an organisation that trains and coaches performing artists of different origins, is very important.

Every year there is a convivial neighbourhood party on Terloplein, with concerts, delicious exotic food and activities for children. The companies that use Matter-horn add theatre to this mixture, both on the square and inside the building.

As from 2016, the Matterhorn npo undertakes to organise the biennial Borgerhuis festival. For the first one, we invited Silke Melis and Gwen Van Erp of the ROESTgroup, a young theatre collective that has made ‘donation theatre’ for neighbourhood projects its trade mark. They will call on the local residents to donate something – a story, a photo, themselves – and then put it all together to create a revue. Matterhorn provides artistic, production and logistic support for the whole project and will be the beating heart of Borgerhuis: a place for encounters, rehearsal and of course a dazzling closing event.

www.matterhornvzw.be

16 > 23.12.2016BORGERHUISBORGERHOUTMatterhornwww.matterhornvzw.be

MAY 2017TERLOPLEINFEESTBORGERHOUTMatterhorn www.matterhornvzw.be

OPERA21

With its fifth presentation in the spring of 2017, the Opera21 festival will bring its biennial cycle to an end. From then on it will be an annual festival. In 2018 it will take place in Ghent and Bruges, and in 2019 in Antwerp once again. By stimulating new creations, Opera21 is investing even more in the future of music theatre. At the same time, its international nature will be boosted and it will open up more to young and exploratory work. Opera21 has a wide-ranging programme that breaks down the boundaries of music theatre: from opera to hybrid, scenic experiments, installations, performances and visual concerts. The festival offers opportunities to producers and compa-nies not catered to by its initiators, Opera Vlaan-deren, Muziektheater Transparant, LOD music thea-tre and deSingel. Literature will be a dominant theme at the next festival, with work by such big names as Erich Maria Remarque, Can Xue, Louis Paul Boon, Raymond Queneau and Jean Genet. See you in Ghent and Antwerp in April 2017.

During Opera21, Muziektheater Transparant will be staging three powerful productions: Janacek’s The Diary of the One Who Disappeared, directed by Ivo van Hove [p. 14], Revelations, a joint project by the composer Wim Henderickx and director Wouter Van Looy on the visions of Hadewijch [p. 20] and Night-shade: Aubergine, the new project by the singer Claron McFadden [p. 10].

www.opera21.be

18 > 29.04.2017ANTWERP

Festival Opera21www.opera21.be

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RUHE

SONGBOOK

The Great American Songbook is the canon of the most important jazz and light music of the twentieth century. The songs, also referred to as standards, originate main- ly from Broadway musicals, music theatre and Holly-wood musical films from the 1920s to the 1950s. The well-known composers whose works have become standards include George Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Harold Arlen and Richard Rodgers, and the renowned performers of these songs were Frank Sinatra, Al Jolson, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Judy Garland, Ella Fitzgerald and many others. During the crisis years of the 1930s and during the two world wars, these songs offered the hope of better times to come. They also set the tone at times of victory and economic growth. The positive values and optimistic attitudes heard in these songs made them into the soundtrack for American life. Now, inspired by this Great American Songbook, Claron McFadden and Tuur Florizoone have compiled their own reper-toire of songs, called Songbook. The Rockoxhuis Mu- seum has invited them to perform a special concert on one of the Rockox Sundays.

05.02.2017ANTWERPDe Zondagen van Rockoxwww.rockoxhuis.be

Singer Claron McFadden Accordionist Tuur Florizoone

Produced by Muziektheater Transparant in association with KBC.

PRIVATE VIEW

MATTERHONGERAND YOU MUST SUFFER

KINGS OF WAR

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INFO

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‘Membership fee 2016-2017’. If you become a member you will be invited to avant-premieres, supporting members to premieres.

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Muziektheater Transparant is a member of the AKO, OKO, ITI, IETM and Assistej Belgium. Muziektheater Transparant is a non profit organisation.

Coordination Séverine Windels, An StevensMaterial supplied by Guy Coolen, An Stevens, Wouter Van Looy, Séverine Windels

Translations Gregory BallGraphic design by Kurt Cornelis – www.sfumato.be

Website Oskar D Creative Services – www.oskard.comPrinted by Stevens Print – www.stevensprint.be

Picture references:Secrets › Willy Schuyten | RUHE › Herman Sorgeloos | Private View › Koen Broos

And you must suffer › Koen Broos | Matterhonger › Wouter Van Looy Kings of War › Jan Versweyveld | La Voix humaine › Jill Bertels

All data concerning casts, dates and starting times may be subject to change. Responsible editor: Guy Coolen, Albrecht Rodenbachstraat 21 bus 1, 2140 Borgerhout

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05 SECRETS LONDON TÊTE À TÊTE – THE OPERA FESTIVAL www.tete-a-tete.org.uk10 LILITH VARNA RADAR FESTIVAL dimitarbodurov.wix.com/radar-festival-2016

13 PARADISEHELL ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH THEATERFESTIVAL BOULEVARD www.festivalboulevard.nl14 PARADISEHELL ’S-HERTOGENBOSCH THEATERFESTIVAL BOULEVARD www.festivalboulevard.nl19 PARADISEHELL ANTWERP DESINGEL – www.desingel.be20 PARADISEHELL ANTWERP DESINGEL – www.desingel.be21 PARADISEHELL ANTWERP DESINGEL – www.desingel.be24 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE GRONINGEN NOORDERZON PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL www.noorderzon.nl

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11 AND YOU MUST SUFFER WROCLAW WRATISLAVIA CANTANS www.nfm.wroclaw.pl21 EARTH DIVER ESSEN RUHRTRIENNALE www.ruhrtriennale.de22 EARTH DIVER ESSEN RUHRTRIENNALE www.ruhrtriennale.de23 EARTH DIVER ESSEN RUHRTRIENNALE www.ruhrtriennale.de24 EARTH DIVER ESSEN RUHRTRIENNALE www.ruhrtriennale.de28 LA VOIX HUMAINE TBILISI TBILISI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL www.tbilisiinternational.com

GENERAL AND ARTISTIC DIRECTORGuy Coolen

ARTISTIC DIRECTORSGuy Cooleninfo@transparant.beWouter Van Looywouter@transparant.be

BUSINESS MANAGERJan Dewispelaerejan@transparant.be

DRAMATURGETobias Kokkelmanstobias@transparant.be

PERSONNEL MANAGERCaroline Gauquiercaroline@transparant.be

BOOKKEEPINGMartine Werbroeckmartine@transparant.be

PRESS AND COMMUNICATIONPatricia Van de Veldepatricia@transparant.be

COMMUNICATION AND PRODUCTIONRuth Sarensruth@transparant.beAn Stevensan@transparant.be

PRODUCTION MANAGERSAnnik Laruelleannik@transparant.beEglantine Möllereglantine@transparant.be

TECHNICIANSAnne Van Esanne@transparant.bePeter Quasterspeter@transparant.be

INTERNATIONAL SALESMaja Lozicmaja@transparant.be SALES IN FRANCELaurent Langloislaurent@transparant.be

RECEPTIONGoedele De Veusterinfo@transparant.be

GENERAL MEETINGEddy Frans - chairman / Yasmina Boudia - vice-chairman / Pablo Fernandez / Katrien Laporte / Olivier Onghena / Bert Peeters / Annick Schramme

BOARD OF DIRECTORSEddy Frans / Yasmina Boudia / Bart Doucet / Dirk de Kort / Pablo Fernandez / Katrien Laporte / Olivier Onghena / Annick Schramme / Katia Segers / Jan Thomaes / Axel Vervoordt / Bert Peeters

MUZIEKTHEATER TRANSPARANT VZWAlbrecht Rodenbachstraat 21 bus 12140 BorgerhoutT + 32 (0)3 22 517 02info@transparant.bewww.transparant.beBTW BE 0417 551 049

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15 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN www.transparant.be/translab16 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN www.transparant.be/translab29 POLAR NIGHT HASSELT NORDIC NIGHT – www.ccha.be

↓ | 11 | 2 0 16 03 POLAR NIGHT ANTWERP DE STUDIO – www.villanella.be 03 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC www.bam.org04 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC www.bam.org05 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC www.bam.org06 KINGS OF WAR NEW YORK BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF MUSIC www.bam.org20 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de21 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de22 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de23 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de24 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de

25 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de26 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de27 LISTEN TO THE SILENCE MANNHEIM FESTIVAL HAPPY NEW EARS www.nationaltheater-mannheim.de

↓ | 12 | 2 0 16 01 MEDEAMATERIAL BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN www.transparant.be/translab02 MEDEAMATERIAL BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN www.transparant.be/translab16 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS www.matterhornvzw.be17 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be17 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch18 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be19 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be19 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch20 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be21 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be22 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be23 ROEST BORGERHOUT BORGERHUIS – www.matterhornvzw.be23 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch26 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch

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02 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch04 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch06 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch08 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch12 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch12 SECRETS ANTWERP THEATER ZUIDPOOL www.zuidpool.be14 SECRETS BRUSSELS RIVERJAZZ www.riverjazz.be15 SECRETS TERNEUZEN PORGY & BESS www.porgyenbess.nl17 SECRETS CHERBOURG LE TRIDENT www.trident-scenenationale.com19 SECRETS ENSCHEDE WILMINKTHEATER MUZIEKCENTRUM ENSCHEDE www.wilminktheater.nl20 SECRETS HASSELT CULTUURCENTRUM HASSELT www.ccha.be21 SECRETS TILBURG THEATERS TILBURG www.theaterstilburg.nl 21 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch

26 SECRETS NANTERRE MAISON DE LA MUSIQUE www.nanterre.fr > Culture28 SECRETS LEYDEN HOT HOUSE www.hothousejazz.nl ↓ | 0 2 | 2 0 17

03 POLAR NIGHT KORTRIJK SCHOUWBURG KORTRIJK www.schouwburgkortrijk.be03 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch05 SONGBOOK ANTWERP DE ZONDAGEN VAN ROCKOX www.rockoxhuis.be08 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch10 MATTERHONGER #2 BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN – www.transparant.be10 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) DORDRECHT ENERGIEHUIS www.energiehuis.nl16 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) NIJVERDAL THEATER NIJVERDAL www.zinintheater.nl17 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) MIDDELBURG SCHOUWBURG MIDDELBURG www.zeelandtheaters.nl18 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) BERGEN OP ZOOM GEBOUW T – www.gebouw-t.nl20 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE BRUGES CONCERTGEBOUW BRUGGE www.concertgebouw.be22 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) DOETICHEM SCHOUWBURG AMPHION www.amphion.nl22 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch23 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) LELYSTAD AGORA THEATER- EN CONGRESCENTRUM www.agora-lelystad.nl

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23 RUHE BERLIN RADIALSYSTEM www.radialsystem.de24 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) MEPPEL SCHOUWBURG OGTEROP www.schouwburgogterop.nl25 RUHE GHENT DE BIJLOKE www.debijloke.be26 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) KAMPEN STADSGEHOORZAAL www.stadsgehoorzaalkampen.nl28 WENDE ( TRY-OUT ) HOOFDDORP SCHOUWBURG DE MEERSE www.demeerse.nl ↓ | 0 3 | 2 0 17

02 WENDE AMSTERDAM PARADISO www.paradiso.nl03 WENDE VEENENDAAL DE LAMPEGIET www.lampegiet.nl05 DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE LUCERNE LUZERNER THEATER www.luzernertheater.ch09 WENDE HOORN SCHOUWBURG HET PARK www.hetpark.nl10 WENDE GRONINGEN DE OOSTERPOORT www.de-oosterpoort.nl11 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED BRUSSELS KLARAFESTIVAL www.kaaitheater.be11 PRIVATE VIEW BERGEN BOREALISFESTIVAL www.borealisfestival.no12 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED BRUSSELS KLARAFESTIVAL www.kaaitheater.be12 WENDE LEYDEN LEIDSE SCHOUWBURG www.stadspodia.nl

12 PRIVATE VIEW BERGEN BOREALISFESTIVAL www.borealisfestival.no16 WENDE THE HAGUE PAARD VAN TROJE www.paard.nl17 3ME BRUGES KLARAFESTIVAL www.concertgebouw.be17 WENDE THE HAGUE PAARD VAN TROJE www.paard.nl17 ROMAN TRAGEDIES LONDON THE BARBICAN www.barbican.org.uk18 AQUARIUS’ DREAM ANTWERP ELISABETHCENTER www.elisabethcenter.be18 WENDE OSS THEATER DE LIEVEKAMP www.lievekamp.nl18 ROMAN TRAGEDIES LONDON THE BARBICAN www.barbican.org.uk19 3ME ANTWERPEN KLARAFESTIVAL www.desingel.be19 ROMAN TRAGEDIES LONDON THE BARBICAN www.barbican.org.uk22 WENDE ALKMAAR THEATER DE VEST www.theaterdevest.nl23 WENDE LEEUWARDEN STADSSCHOUWBURG DE HARMONIE www.harmonie.nl23 LE COUPEUR D'EAU HERENTALS ’T SCHALIKEN www.schaliken.be25 WENDE DRACHTEN SCHOUWBURG DE LAWEI www.lawei.nl28 AND YOU MUST SUFFER AMSTERDAM OPERA FORWARD www.muziekgebouw.nl29 AND YOU MUST SUFFER AMSTERDAM OPERA FORWARD www.muziekgebouw.nl

29 WENDE BREDA CHASSÉ THEATER www.chasse.nl 30 SECRETS MOUSCRON CENTRE CULTUREL DE MOUSCRON www.centrecultureldemouscron.be30 WENDE ZWOLLE ODEON – www.zwolsetheaters.nl31 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE AMSTERDAM OSTADETHEATER www.ostadeadam.nl31 WENDE EINDHOVEN PARKTHEATER www.parktheater.nl ↓ | 0 4 | 2 0 17

01 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE AMSTERDAM OSTADETHEATER www.ostadeadam.nl01 WENDE MAASTRICHT AINSI www.theateraanhetvrijthof.nl02 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE AMSTERDAM OSTADETHEATER www.ostadeadam.nl07 MATTERHONGER #3 BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN www.transparant.be07 WENDE APPELDOORN ORPHEUS www.orpheus.nl08 WENDE ENSCHEDE DE KLEINE WILLEM www.wilminktheater.nl11 WENDE ROTTERDAM LUXOR THEATER www.luxortheater.nl12 SECRETS LYON THÉÂTRE DE LA CROIX-ROUSSE www.croix-rousse.com13 SECRETS LYON THÉÂTRE DE LA CROIX-ROUSSE www.croix-rousse.com

13 WENDE DELFT THEATER DE VESTE www.theaterdeveste.nl13 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl14 SECRETS LYON THÉÂTRE DE LA CROIX-ROUSSE www.croix-rousse.com14 WENDE UTRECHT STADSSCHOUWBURG UTRECHT www.stadsschouwburg-utrecht.nl14 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl15 WENDE HAARLEM STADSCHOUWBURG HAARLEM www.theater-haarlem.nl15 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl18 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl19 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl21 REVELATIONS ANTWERP OPERA21 www.desingel.be21 WENDE ‘S-HERTOGENBOSCH VERKADEFABRIEK www.verkadefabriek.nl21 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl22 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED ANTWERP OPERA21 – www.operaballet.be22 LE COUPEUR D'EAU BRUSSELS FLAGEY www.flagey.be22 WENDE ARNHEM STADSTHEATER www.arnhemsepodia.nl22 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl

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23 REVELATIONS ANTWERP OPERA21 www.desingel.be25 REVELATIONS MALINES FESTIVAL VAN VLAANDEREN MECHELEN www.mechelenhoortstemmen.be25 WENDE LOUVAIN 30CC www.30cc.be25 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl26 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl28 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl29 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE ANTWERP OPERA21 – www.desingel.be29 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN www.transparant.be/translab29 WENDE GOUDA DE GOUDSE SCHOUWBURG www.goudseschouwburg.nl29 KINGS OF WAR AMSTERDAM STADSSCHOUWBURG AMSTERDAM www.stadsschouwburgamsterdam.nl30 TRANSLAB WEEKEND BORGERHOUT MATTERHORN www.transparant.be/translab30 WENDE AMSTERDAM PARADISO – www.paradiso.nl

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05 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED LONDON ROYAL OPERA HOUSE www.roh.org.uk

06 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED LONDON ROYAL OPERA HOUSE www.roh.org.uk06 LA VOIX HUMAINE LIER LIERS CULTUURCENTRUM www.lierscultuurcentrum.be07 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED LONDON ROYAL OPERA HOUSE www.roh.org.uk08 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED LONDON ROYAL OPERA HOUSE www.roh.org.uk09 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED LONDON ROYAL OPERA HOUSE www.roh.org.uk12 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED ROTTERDAM OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.operadagenrotterdam.nl13 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED ROTTERDAM OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.operadagenrotterdam.nl13 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE ROTTERDAM OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.operadagenrotterdam.nl14 NIGHTSHADE: AUBERGINE ROTTERDAM OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.operadagenrotterdam.nl20 REVELATIONS ROTTERDAM OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.operadagenrotterdam.nl20 POLAR NIGHT ROTTERDAM OPERADAGEN ROTTERDAM www.operadagenrotterdam.nl21 THE DIARY OF THE ONE WHO DISAPPEARED AMSTERDAM MUZIEKGEBOUW AAN HET IJ www.muziekgebouw.nl22 WENDE ANTWERP ANTWERPSE KLEPPERS www.toneelhuis.be

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LIESA VAN DER AAParadiseHell

ANNELIES VAN PARYSAnd you must sufferRUHEThe Diary of the One Who DisappearedPrivate View

LUIGI DE ANGELISЗМЕЯ

IVO VAN HOVEKings of WarThe Diary of the One Who DisappearedRoman Tragedies

WOUTER VAN LOOYEarth diverDie ZauberflöteRevelations

NAOMI BEELDENSLa Voix humaine

CLARON MCFADDENSecretsLilithNightshade: Aubergine

WENDE SNIJDERSWende