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Dutch National Opera to Tour ‘Dido and Aeneas’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to perform Purcell’s “Dido and Aeneas” on tour in concert performances. The company will partner with Opera Zuid and Nederlandse Reisopera and will be touring the Netherlands with a Purcell programme centred around the short opera “Dido and Aeneas.” This music from more than 300 years ago will be interpreted by members of the {…}
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Dutch National Opera 2024 – 25 Review: Oum – A Son’s Quest For His Mother

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(Photo: Bart Grietens) What is an opera? Any attempt to construct a watertight definition is almost certain to fail and will likely lead to fruitless efforts to differentiate it from music theatre, musicals, oratorios and other forms of sung performances. Possibly, the best that can be hoped for is a loose definition that takes in its more obvious characteristics and {…}
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Dutch National Opera 2024 – 25 Review: Codes

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(Photo: Michel Schnater) The second major presentation of this season’s Dutch National Opera’s ‘Opera Forward Festival’ was a short opera lasting approximately an hour by composer Bas Gaakeer to texts by Gregory Caers and Jasmijn van Wijnen called “Codes.” Of course, one does not always know what to expect from the operas that will be performed; after all, it is {…}
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Aušrinė Stundytė & AJ Glueckert Lead Dutch National Opera’s ‘Die Frau ohne Schatten’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present a new production of “Die Frau ohne Schatten.” The opera will be presented in a new production by Katie Mitchell and will be conducted by Marc Albrecht. In Mitchell’s production, she critically dissects the opera’s conservative ideals in her own fashion. The opera will star soprano Aušrinė Stundytė as the Dyer’s Wife, {…}
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Malin Byström, Natalya Romaniw, Elena Stikhina, Vasilisa Berzhanskaya, Jakub Józef Orliński, Federica Lombardi & Joshua Guerrero Lead Dutch National Opera’s 2025-26 Season

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The Dutch National Opera has announce dits 2025-26 season. Elena Stikhina and Natalya Romaniw star in Puccini’s “Tosca” with Joshua Guerrero and Gevorg Hakobyan. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts. Performance Dates: Sept. 3-25, 2025 “Operetta Land” will be performed featuring music by Johann Strauss II, Jacques Offenbach, and Arthur Sullivan. Steef de Jong, Raoul Stefani, Marc Pantus, Laetitia Gerards, Elenora Hu, Frederik {…}
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Dutch National Opera to Present ‘We Are The Lucky Ones’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present the world premiere of Philip Venables’s latest opera “We Are The Lucky Ones.” The opera will be shown at the Opera Forward Festival 2025 and will mark the fourth collaboration between Philip Venables and Ted Huffman based on real-life interviews. “We Are The Lucky Ones” tells the story of a generation and {…}
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Beyoncé & Madonna Choreographer to Direct Dutch National Opera’s ‘Idomeneo’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present Mozart’s “Idomeneo.” The company will present a production by choreographer and director Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, who has choreographed for pop stars such as Beyoncé (at her 2017 Grammy Award performance) and Madonna (on her #CelebrationTour). The production will feature dancers from his own company Eastman and sets by the Japanese artist Chiharu {…}
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Dutch National Opera to Present ‘Die ersten Menschen’

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The Dutch National Opera is set to present Rudi Stephan’s “Die ersten Menschen.” The work tells the story of the first family in the Biblical history of humanity, Adahm, Chawa, and their two sons Kajin and Chabel. Directed by Calixto Bieito, the director situates the primeval conflict in a modern-day setting reminiscent of the family dinner in Luis Buñuel’s film {…}
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Dutch National Opera 2024-25 Review: Le Lacrime di Eros

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(Photo: Dutch National Opera/Monika Rittershaus) (*** Trigger warning based on explicit content & suicide ***) “Le Lacrime di Eros” takes the audience back to the Italian city states of the late 16th and early 17th centuries, a period still basking in the afterglow of the High Renaissance, in which the artworks of Da Vinci, Raphael and Michelangelo hung in the {…}

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