Composer of the month
FROM VONDEL 1685 TO THE DUTCH FRENCH ERA 1812 • 26 APRIL 2020
On Sunday 26 April 401DutchOperas and the Nederlands Muziek Instituut will give a unique concert with the long lost operas of the Amsterdam Opera School 1685-1710 (Hendrik Anders, David Petersen, Servaes de Koninck and Elias Brönnemuller), the first Haarlem opera in Paris (Johan Mulligens Acajou from 1773), the first Frisian opera (Jean des Communes’ opera Het dorp in het gebergte from 1812) and a try-out of two pieces from the unknown opera Vestas Feuer from the Zutphen born composer… Beethoven! With tenor Denzil Delaere, soprano Jolien De Gendt, baritone Hans Voschezang, mezzo Sarah Konig, soprano Gina de Jong and tenor Hugo Kampschreur. Camerata Delft is the chamber ensemble, Pieter Dhoore pianist.
26 April 2020, Oud-Katholieke Parochiekerk, Juffrouw Idastraat 7, Den Haag (NL).
Opera of the month
GOVERT BIDLOO/VONDEL: FAËTON (1685) • 26 APRIL, DEN HAAG
Vondel was the most famous Dutch playwright of the 17th Century. Yet by 1663 Amsterdam City Theatre director Jan Vos thought his work outdated and he refused to mount Vondel's Faëton. it was finally performed there posthumously in 1685, when new director Govert Bidloo gave it disguised as an... opera! To pull this off he had personally added an hour of text and anonymously composed music to the play, turning it into a Lully-like opera. The five authentic dances and arias preserved in the Nederlands Muziek instituut have been made perfromance ready by Andy Clark for our 26 April 2020 concert 'From Vondel 1685 to the Dutch French Era 1812'. Camerata Delft is our chamber ensemble. Vocalists are Denzil Delaere (Spring), Gina de Jong (Summer), Sarah Konig (Autumn) and Hans Voschezang (Winter).
26 april 2020, Oud-Katholieke Parochiekerk, Juffrouw Idastraat 7, Den Haag.
Monique Krüs: Peter De Grote
August 2, 3, 2013
August 22, 2013
Hermitage Amsterdam
Floris van Bergeijk - Romeo en Julia
Romeo en Julia, het paradijs ligt onder de voeten van je moeder
(de)Composer: Floris van Bergeijk naar Berlioz, Bellini, Gounod, Rota, Bernstein, Tchaikovsky en Prokofjev.
Performance schedule: 31 juli (wereldpremière), 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10 , 11 augustus 2013
Donna Giovanna.
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Caroline Ansink
Caroline Ansink
a biography of the composer of Stuyvesant Zero can be found here.
NOW ONLINE: exclusive interview with Caroline Ansink, with unique sound & video fragments of her music.
Cloris en Roosje
The original CLORIS & ROOSJE 1686 / 1707
A Camerata Trajectina rediscovery, for the first time ever on CD: a milestone in the rediscovery of Dutch opera !!!!
DUTCH OPERAS & VOCAL ART
This website serves to promote Dutch (and Flemish) Operas. Surprisingly, more than 400 Dutch operas have been composed since Carolus Hacquarts & Dirk Buysero’s opera De triomferende min (The triumphant servant) since 1680.
Hans Kox: Dorian GrayFALSTAFF RIVISTO
Opera Spanga and the Rosa ensemble give Verdi's opera a short hunderd and thirty years later a complete update: Falstaff becomes Falstaff Rivisto. Rosa's composers 'decomposed' Verdi's masterpiece. Acoustic sounds are mixed with electronics, The opera in set against a stage of four centuries of art history.
STUYVESANT ZERO
SPECTACULAR LIVE REPORT FROM SPANGA WITH SOUND & PICS!
Componist: Caroline Ansink
Libretto: Jonathan Levi
TRIOMFEERENDE MIN
Carolus Hacquarts De Triomfeerende Min in schitterende reconstructie van Camerata Trajectina op het Oude Muziek Festival Utrecht. Verkrijgbaar op cd, binnenkort met filmfragmenten van de voorstelling uit Augustus 2012! Lees verder hier
342 years of Dutch operas
Of the more than 400 operas composed in The Netherlands in the span of 342 years, not a single one has managed to enter even the local repertoire. Among those forgotten operas are the first Dutch baroque operas, mostly in the French style of Lully's Versailles, opéra comiques after Grétry, grand opéras after Auber and Meyerbeer, along with full blooded romantic operas in the style of Verdi or Wagner.
