Villa Vivaldi
Antonio Vivali / Jan Van Outryve
In 2003, a group of young singers and instrumentalists created Drift, directed by Wouter Van Looy and Jan Van Outryve. This opera with music by Claudio Monteverdi was based on the libretto of the lost opera Arianna. Muziektheater Transparant has been working with young musicians for years. Drift became a climax in that structural investment, with a tour around venues in Belgium and Holland and a selection for the Flemish-Dutch Theatre Festival.
Five years later, the core group of artists of Drift reunites for a new project on the music of Antonio Vivaldi. The audience is watching the garden of a building where some kind of party is going on. Inside, the guests live up to the rules of correct social behaviour and conventions. In the park however, we see the other side of human communication and interaction. People meet, play, make confessions, fall in love… Hidden feelings are uttered, suppressed grief is shown only in the open air.
For Villa Vivaldi, personal ideas and desires are contrasted to the restrictions of real life. While the party goes on, the audience gets more and more involved in the inner world of the characters that withdraw from the festivities to give voice to their sentiments.
music ANTONIO VIVALDI - texts LUDOVICO ARIOSTO - musical direction JAN VAN OUTRYVE - general direction WOUTER VAN LOOY - set and light design SACHA VAN RIEL - choreography NICOLETTA BRANCHINI - costumes MIJEONG JEONG - sound BART CELIS - soundscapes MICHEL VANDERHAEGEN
technicians ANNE VAN ES en PETER QUASTERS
soprano ELISE CALUWAERTS - altus ELENA POJIDAEVA - contratenor JONATHAN DE CEUSTER - tenor DICK VANDAELE - soprano IRENE CARPENTIER - bariton OLIVIER BERTEN - bas ERKS JAN DEKKER - tenor KOEN VEREERTBRUGGHEN
choir: ANDRE VAN LEUVEN, LIESBETH MELIS, JO HEYVAERT, BRUNO DE CANNE
play: ALINE CORNELISSEN, JOZEFIEN HARTEEL, LOUIS JANSSENS, LAURA MAYA Y ROSIERS, ARNAUD NDONGALA, LIESBETH MELIS, INE VAESEN, THOMAS VERSTREPEN
musical performance: violin WIETSE BEELS - violin WIBERT AERTS - hammond NIELS VERHEEST - percussion NORBERT PFLANZER - cello FRANS GRAPPERHAUS - accordeon ANNE NIEPOLD - bas ARNE VAN DONGEN or JORIS VANVINKENROYE
A production by Muziektheater Transparant. In coproduction with De Vlaamse Opera.