Opera
I Grotteschi
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LA MONNAIE / DE MUNT
Dance
Amours Aveugles Rosalba Torres Guerrero & Koen Augustijnen / Siamese Cie
Presentation
A new dance production about two mythical ill-fated couples and the baroque music they inspired
Impossible love, a theme as old as humankind, portrayed and sung by the very greatest. For their latest dance creation, Rosalba Torres Guerrero and Koen Augustijnen take their inspiration from Claudio Monteverdi’s opera L’Orfeo and his dramatic madrigal Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Two stories about iconic couples whose doomed love affair also captivated many other baroque composers. Amours Aveugles, performed musically by two accordionists alongside soprano Liesbeth Devos and tenor Ed Lyon, does not shy away from the great emotions these works evoke. Nor from the big questions: How can we become so blinded by love that we commit the irrevocable? Why do we sometimes inflict the most pain on those we love the most? And what meaning can myths still have today in our uber-digitized and highly individualized world?
This production is part of Troika Dance
Cast
Cast
MusicCLAUDIO MONTEVERDI, LUIGI ROSSO, MARCO UCELLINI, ANTONIO SORTORIO, GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
Concept and choreographyKOEN AUGUSTIJNEN DramaturgyDIRK VERSTOCKT Costume designPEGGY HOUSSET Hair and make-up designSARA JUDICE DE MENEZES Light designHELMUT VAN DEN MEERSSCHAUT Assisted bySEPPE BROUCKAERT
DanceROSALBA TORRES GUERRERO, ELIE TASS Live musicPHILIPPE THURIOT (ACCORDION) & GWEN CRESENS (ACCORDION) SopranoLIESBETH DEVOS TenoreED LYON
ProductionSIAMESE CIE/GLOED VZW CoproductionTHÉÂTRE MARS MONS - ARTS DE LA SCÈNE (B), CHARLEROI DANSE - CENTRE CHORÉGRAPHIQUE WALLONIE BRUXELLES (B), THÉÂTRE CHÂTEAU ROUGE - SC ANNEMASSE (F), THÉÂTRE DE CORNOUAILLE QUIMPER (F) , LE MANÈGE SN MAUBEUGE (F), ESPACES PLURIELS - SC- PAU (F). CopresentationDE MUNT / LA MONNAIE
With the support of the Flemish Government I Culture
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