FROM MOZART TO BRANDTS BUYS in DE NIEUWE KHL

On Sunday 29 april De Nieuwe KHL Amsterdam presented a preview of our three main 2018 projects. Sopranos Esmée van Nieuwenhuizen and Gina de Jong of Music Academy The Hague brought a preview of our Dutch Royal Court Opera in Mozart times with arias by Colizzi, baron Gottfried van Swieten and Mozart. Dutch late romanticism was presented with Jan van Gilse’s Helga von Stavern (1911), sung by soprano Barbara Schilstra and baritone Hans de Vries. A preview of our Jan Brandts Buys Festival in september featured arias & duets from Hero und Leander (1919), Der Eroberer (1921) and Ulysses (1931). Jan ten Bokum played romantic piano pieces by the composer. All related to our first official cd-release, a studio recoridng of Jan Brandts Buys' opera Micarême, also presented here.

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