Verklärte Nacht
Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) is based on Schönberg’s late romantic music for strings and a poem by Richard Dehmel about a woman who, one moonlit night, confesses in a wood to the man she loves that she is pregnant with…
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The Tale of Tsar Saltan
The titles of some operas are in themselves sufficient to capture the imagination. For the centenary of Pushkin’s birth in 1899, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov drew inspiration from one of his celebrated fairy tales and composed a delightfully imaginative opera, with the…
Béjart: a man, a work, a company
The Béjart Ballet Lausanne is the instrument of a major choreographer of the 20th century. Maurice Béjart an extraordinary artist, a genius of dance, a master of ballet. This shows that Stadsschouwburg Antwerp is delighted to be able to present…
Sacre
Considered one of the key works of modernism, it is a hundred years after the genesis of Igor Stravinsky’s “Le Sacre du Printemps” that Sasha Waltz takes on the Mariinsky Theatre’s offer to engage with this extraordinary piece of musical…
L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
Choreographer Mark Morris garnered international fame for “L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato”, considered a landmark achievement, and set to Handel’s Baroque masterpiece, in which a colorful array of dancers embody the ecstasy of art that transforms. “L’Allegro” was Mark…