Music Theatre Transparant

Songs of war
Season 2012-2013

Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Heiner Goebbels' Songs of Wars I've seen are indictments of the absurdity of war. 

An Oresteia
Season 2010-2011

Musical drama by Iannis Xenakis based on lyrics by Aeschylus with added music by Annelies Van Parys.

Solitude
Youth & Education
Season 2008-2009

An opera course for young people on Henry Purcell’s theatre music.

Babar

Inspired by an idea of pianist Claire Chevallier, this piano recital on Erard confronts music by Satie with music by Poulenc.

A total Entfuhrung
Season 2006-2007

Mozarts Opera Die Entführung aus dem Serail adapted by author-director Ramsey Nasr and composer Wim Henderickx.

Intra-Muros
Season 2005-2006

This piece of music-theatre arises out of a fascination for the violent Salo, Pasolini’s last film.

Jullie die weten
Season 2005-2006

An adaptation of Mozarts Le Nozze di Figaro by Johann Nepomuk Went, with scenography and costumes by Veronique Branquinho. 

Bluebeard's Castle
Season 2005-2006

This collaboration between Muziektheater Transparant, De Filmfabriek and deFilharmonie uses light and video to create a forbidden space behind the last, locked door of Bluebeard’s castle.

Von Tripp
Season 2005-2006

The much harder truth that inspired the movie The Sound of Music forms the basis of this modern musical. 

Thing
Season 2005-2006

Thing is one of those typical sound installation that combine music and image in a disarming play.

Peer Gynt
Season 2003-2004

Marianne Pousseur and Enrico Bagnoli's Peer Gynt is based on two of the most well-known works in the theatre and music repertoire: Ibsen's play and Edvard Grieg's orchestral suite

Gli amori d'Apollo e di Dafne
Season 2004-2005

A piece based on Cavalli's Gli amore e di Dafne by director Beatriz Catani. 

The Medium
Season 2004-2005

The Medium is Peter Maxwell Davies' most daring composition. The libretto is about a nameless woman who tries to convey her psychological experiences. 

Woth
Season 2014-2015

With WOTH (Weighing of the Heart), the highly individual musician Liesa Van der Aa is seeking a way through the moral chaos of our polyphonous world

There is no why here

-there is no why here- is a project by Italian composer Andrea Molino, with David Moss and Anna Linardou as lead singers and direction by Wouter van Looy.

Dido and Aeneas
Youth & Education
Season 2012-2013

This year's summer youth opera project is Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

O mio core
Season 2012-2013

From the opera scores of Cavalli Nicholas Achten, artistic leader of baroque ensemble Scherzi Musicali, chose a series of arias, duets and laments and instrumental interludes.

Queen of the Night
Youth
Season 2012-2013

A musical performance for children based on Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.

Territoria
Season 2012-2013

Territoria arises from the shared fascination of theater maker An De Donder, visual artist and designer Freija Van Esbroeck and scenographer Erki De Vries for the music of Wim Henderickx.

The Cutter-off of Water

Published in 1989, Marguerite Duras' Le coupeur d’eau (The Cutter-off of Water) is a moving short story inspired by a tragic fait divers: the suicide of an entire family after a waterworks employee cut off the water.

Escorial

Josse De Pauw is intrigued by Michel de Ghelderode, born in Ixelles in 1898, and his play Escorial. The story is set in 16th century Spain in the retrait of the Spanish kings. 

Lilith

Opera singer Claron McFadden delivers an emotionally charged musical-theatre performance that combines classical music, jazz, sampling, theatre, film and poetry.

Opera Buffa

Opera Buffa is a contemporary adaptation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by Laika and Muziektheater Transparant. This highly imaginative production applauds the power of subtle longing. 

Pelleas et Melisande
Season 2011-2012

When the Belgian symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck wrote the play Pelléas et Mélisande in 1893, it went on to create a furore. 

Listen to the Silence
Season 2014-2015

Listen to the silence is an interactive concert where the audience participates in an adventurous musical exploration. A tribute to John Cage, who in 2012 would celebrate his 100th birthday.

RUHE
Season 2006-2007

RUHE is a recital of choral music of Schubert, that is rudely interrupted by people who want to talk about their voluntary enlistment in the SS in 1940.

Over The Mountains
Season 2009-2010

Following the international success of RUHE, Josse De Pauw and jazz composer Corrie Van Binsbergen created over the mountains. They address the desire and loss that never ceases. 

Blond Eckbert
Season 2011-2012

Director Wouter Van Looy directs, together with the artistic duo Sarah&Charles, stages Blond Eckbert from the Scottish composer Judith Weir, based on the eponymous novel by the Romantic writer Ludwig Tieck.

Medea
Season 2010-2011

De Veenfabriek and Muziektheater Transparant, bring an entirely new and contemporary version of the Greek tragedy of Medea.

Porcelain
Season 2009-2010

How, following the disappearance of his father, he grew up a lonely child with his overanxious mother and the chambermaid who lived with them. 

Utopia::47 - A very last passion
Season 2011-2012

Composer Eric Sleichim Utopia :: 47 explores the meaning of Heinrich Schütz' spiritual music. In this passion Cristina Zavalloni embodies the figure of the suffering woman.

Void
Season 2008-2009

On the composition Sunyata of Wim Henderickx, we follow a man surveying his life through a series of suggestive meditative images.

A new Requiem
Season 2009-2010

Author Jeroen Brouwers and artist Roger Raveel provide a contemporary response to the universal music of Mozart’s Requiem, Christian Köhler recomposes the score for ‘Harmonie’.

Arthur

Arthur is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell. 100 years after the start of the great War, Muziektheater Transparant, B'Rock and de Veenfabriek place Purcell's music in a contemporary context. 

Van den Vos

Inspired by the epic fable Reynard, FC Bergman, Toneelhuis and Muziektheater Transparant play a timeless piece with text by Josse de Pauw and music by Liesa van der Aa. 

There is no why here

-there is no why here- is a project by Italian composer Andrea Molino, with David Moss and Anna Linardou as lead singers and direction by Wouter van Looy.

Winterreise
Season 2013-2014

A play by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Muziektheater Transparant with Franz Schuberts song cycle about the romantic Wanderer as a starting point.

Canti d'Amor
Youth & Education
Season 2013-2014

With the guidance of director Wouter Van Looy and baroque expert Nicolas Achten, young singers and musicians create their own version of Claudio Monteverdi's masterpieces. 

The Fairy Queen
Season 2008-2009

An adaptation of Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell, directed by Wouter Van Looy.

Feedback
Youth
Season 2008-2009

An interactive children's play with music by Bert Bernaerts based on the new technologies that influence musical developments.

Wolpe!
Season 2008-2009

A sarcastic portrait of a jewish avant-garde composer.

Escorial
Season 2013-2014

Josse De Pauw is intrigued by Michel de Ghelderode, born in Ixelles in 1898, and his play Escorial. The story is set in 16th century Spain in the retrait of the Spanish kings. 

Songs of war
Season 2013-2014

Monteverdi's Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda and Heiner Goebbels' Songs of Wars I've seen are indictments of the absurdity of war. 

Queen of the Night
Season 2013-2014

A musical performance for children based on Mozart's Die Zauberflöte.

Territoria
Season 2013-2014

Territoria arises from the shared fascination of theater maker An De Donder, visual artist and designer Freija Van Esbroeck and scenographer Erki De Vries for the music of Wim Henderickx.

The Cutter-off of Water
Season 2013-2014

Published in 1989, Marguerite Duras' Le coupeur d’eau (The Cutter-off of Water) is a moving short story inspired by a tragic fait divers: the suicide of an entire family after a waterworks employee cut off the water.

Lilith
Season 2013-2014

Opera singer Claron McFadden delivers an emotionally charged musical-theatre performance that combines classical music, jazz, sampling, theatre, film and poetry.

Opera Buffa
Season 2014-2015

Opera Buffa is a contemporary adaptation of Mozart’s Don Giovanni by Laika and Muziektheater Transparant. This highly imaginative production applauds the power of subtle longing. 

A girl A boy A river
Youth
Season 2006-2007

Paul Verrepts wonderful tale about love and the elusiveness of life is the basis of this play directed by Wouter van Looy. With music by Jan Van Outryve.  

Platee
Youth & Education
Season 2008-2009

Opera workshop for young people based on Platée by Jean-Philippe Rameau

Die Entfuhrung aus dem Paradies
Season 2008-2009

With this subtitle, composer Joachim Brackx and librettist Oscar van den Boogaard are aiming to create a mild degree of provocation.

Where is my soul?
Season 2007-2008

Monteverdi's madrigals in a concept by Caroline Petrick about desire, fear and power. 

Villa Vivaldi
Season 2007-2008

With the musical themes from Vivaldi's opera as a starting point, Jan Van Outryve rewrote the music, Michel Vanderhaegen added a soundscape. 

Orlando
Season 2010-2011

Two leading figures from Italian history inspired Muziektheater Transparant for the making of Orlando: Antonio Vivaldi and Ludovicio Ariosto. 

Music Factory
Youth
Season 2007-2008

An interactive production for the youngest played by Gert Jochems with music by Jan Van Outryve.

Alles Liebe
Youth & Education
Season 2007-2008

Young people create their own version of a piece of baroque cultural heritage, Samson by Georg Friedrich Händel, directed by Ruud Gielens.

Reset
Season 2006-2007

Reset is an interdisciplinary reflection on music, theatre, image and space, presented in the form of a performance for one actor, eight musicians and video. 

La Mort de Sainte Almeenne / L'idee
Season 2005-2006

Arthur Honegger's never finished opera is finally completed by French composer Nicolas Bacri and now has its long-awaited world première.

Nest
Season 2004-2005

Nest describes the inner journey of a young man looking for the bleeding bull inside himself. Played and sang by Steven Van Watermeulen, with music by Senjan Jansen.

An Index of Memories
Season 2009-2010

An Index of Memories is a scenic concert about memory and its emotions. It is all based on the writings left us by the classical Greek poetess Sappho

Autopsie van een Gebroken Hart
Season 2009-2010

Based on the first and only book by writer Marcelle Sauvageot, An De Donder and Dominique Pauwels made this theatrical production.

Romeinse Tragedies
Season 2009-2010

Ivo Van Hove staged three of Shakespeare's plays - Coriolanus, Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra - as a single continuous piece about the political machine.

Jakob Lenz
Season 2004-2005

Wolfgang Rihm’s chamber opera is based on the life story of German poet Jakob Lenz. Director Caroline Petrick brings the opera back to life.

Dido
Youth
Season 2004-2005

Muziektheater Transparant and Theater Froe Froe bring this musical poem full of passion and fate, fear and mad hope. 

Arthur / De Queeste
Youth & Education
Youth
Season 2004-2005

Eightteen children and teenagers grasp the well-known story of King Arthur. About bulky knights who fight for a better world, but aren't quite sure yet what that should look like.

Enoch Arden
Season 2003-2004

A timeless and heartbreaking tale, written by Alfred Tennylson in 1864, played by Dirk Roofthooft. 

Men in Tribulation
Season 2003-2004

Eric Sleichim presents his new opera for countertenor, narrator, voice, saxophone quartet and keyboards, commissioned by Muziektheater Transparant. 

Drift
Youth & Education
Season 2003-2004

Lamento d'Arianna, the only remainder of Monteverdi's interpretation of Ariadne's story, together with other baroque works, is used as the starting point for developing Drift. 

The Queen without a country
Season 2014-2015

Following Porcelain and The girl the boy the river, the director Wouter Van Looy is once again collaborating with the writer Paul Verrept.

Canti d' Amor II
Youth & Education
Season 2014-2015

Monteverdi's Madrigals are the starting point for Muziektheater Transparant’s youth opera 2014.

Private View
Season 2014-2015

Annelies Van Parys, one of the resident composers at Muziektheater Transparant, writes Private View, her first  opera, for the Opera XXI festival.

There is no why here
Season 2014-2015

-there is no why here- is a project by Italian composer Andrea Molino, with David Moss and Anna Linardou as lead singers and direction by Wouter van Looy.

The Cutter-off of Water
Season 2014-2015

Published in 1989, Marguerite Duras' Le coupeur d’eau (The Cutter-off of Water) is a moving short story inspired by a tragic fait divers: the suicide of an entire family after a waterworks employee cut off the water.

Van den Vos
Season 2014-2015

Inspired by the epic fable Reynard, FC Bergman, Toneelhuis and Muziektheater Transparant play a timeless piece with text by Josse de Pauw and music by Liesa van der Aa. 

Arthur
Season 2014-2015

Arthur is a semi-opera by Henry Purcell. 100 years after the start of the great War, Muziektheater Transparant, B'Rock and de Veenfabriek place Purcell's music in a contemporary context. 

Escorial
Season 2014-2015

Josse De Pauw is intrigued by Michel de Ghelderode, born in Ixelles in 1898, and his play Escorial. The story is set in 16th century Spain in the retrait of the Spanish kings. 

Winterreise
Season 2014-2015

A play by the Ensemble Intercontemporain and Muziektheater Transparant with Franz Schuberts song cycle about the romantic Wanderer as a starting point.

Lilith
Season 2014-2015

Opera singer Claron McFadden delivers an emotionally charged musical-theatre performance that combines classical music, jazz, sampling, theatre, film and poetry.

Listen to the Silence
Youth & Education
Youth

Listen to the silence is an interactive concert where the audience participates in an adventurous musical exploration. A tribute to John Cage, who in 2012 would celebrate his 100th birthday.

Kings of war
Season 2014-2015

Directed by Ivo van Hove. Kings of War combines Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into a single, explosive play about leadership.

Listen to the Silence
Season 2015-2016

Everything we do is music. John Cage changed musical norms forever and enhanced music history with his own poetry of freedom, coincidence, emptiness and silence. 

Abendrot
TRANSLAB - 2015-2016

Nightshade: Aubergine
Season 2016-2017

In Nightshade: Aubergine, Claron McFadden goes in search of the common roots of our various cultures by focusing on one of the most iconoclastic ingredients on the culinary scene: the aubergine. 

The Channel / Crossing Borders
Season 2016-2017

On a beach near Calais a young refugee prepares himself to swim across the Channel, towards his new future. On the English side, on the chalk cliffs of Beachy Head, a woman bids life goodbye.

LES ÂMES PERDUES
TRANSLAB - 2016-2017

Les Âmes Perdues is the graduation project of Isaak Duerinck at the Royal Conservatoire Antwerp. 

Così
TRANSLAB - 2017-2018

Two actors, two singers, a pianist and a violinist. Based on Mozart’s opera Così fan tutte (The school for lovers) they organise an experiment in which they go in search of possible freedom within a love relationship.

The Visit
Current season

Claire Zacchanassian returns as richest woman of the world to the bankrupt town of Güllen. The inhabitants hope that she will save the impoverished town with her fortune.

Così
TRANSLAB - 2018-2019

Two actors, two singers, a pianist and a violinist. Based on Mozart’s opera Così fan tutte (The school for lovers) they organise an experiment in which they go in search of possible freedom within a love relationship.

Windischgraetz
TRANSLAB - 2016-2017
TRANSLAB - 2015-2016

Soprano Lissa Meyvis and pianist Thomas Eeckhout are writing a new story based on a selection of Mörike songs. 

La voix humaine
TRANSLAB - 2015-2016

Naomi Beeldens chooses this intriguing masterpiece by Francis Poulenc and Jean Cocteau as the starting point for her graduation project at the Conservatoire in Antwerp.

Polar Night
TRANSLAB - 2015-2016

In the winter of 2014 five artists withdrew from the city into the most northerly region of Europe, where it is dark day and night. From this experience the creators have distilled a multidisciplinary production.

Die Zauberflöte
Season 2016-2017

Die Zauberflöte is the first production in a series of joint projects with the Lucerne opera house. In his version Wouter Van Looy focuses on the contemporary relevance of this fairy-tale opera. 

Les Indes Galantes
TRANSLAB - 2018-2019
TRANSLAB - 2017-2018

The French ballet opera Les Indes Galantes is the scenery for this edition of the youth opera under the TRANSLAB label of Muziektheater Transparant.

Harriet
Current season

Portrait of the courageous Afro-American freedom fighter Harriet Tubman and her struggle against slavery.

In bocca al lupo
TRANSLAB - 2015-2016

The theme of 2015’s youth opera is inspired by the wolf. What does it mean to be a wolf on the stage? This theme provides the basis for work involving the early Italian Baroque music.

Hyperion
TRANSLAB - 2015-2016

MENS
Season 2016-2017

In collaboration with writers as Dimitri Verhulst and Tom Lanoye Wende will invite the public on a surprising and, occasionally, confronting journey. 

The Towers of Beirut (10+)
Current season

A story about growing up, friendship and resistance. Nabila hopes to find happiness in the big city as she flees her rual life with her parents. 

LES ÂMES PERDUES
TRANSLAB - 2018-2019

During the first half of the 20th century, highbrow had never been more popular and lowbrow had never been more elitist.

Diary of One Who Disappeared
Season 2016-2017

Ivo van Hove directs Ed Lyon and Marie Hamard in Leoš Janáček 's The Diary of One who Disappeared. Annelies Van Parys composes an answer to this intriguing tale about detachment. 

3MEЯ
Season 2016-2017

In Змея the Italian theatre maker Luigi De Angelis and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop stage an evocation of the musical world of Sergei Diaghilev (1872-1929), the founder of Les Ballets Russes.

Earth Diver
Current season

Inspired by the discourse of Peter Sloterdijk en Slavoj Žižek, the director Wouter Van Looy and video artist Wim Catrysse examine the way the global crisis is being handled. 

Aquarius' Dream
Season 2016-2017

Aquarius’ Dream is about the elusive and the supernatural. This second symphony by Wim Henderickx will be the first world premiere for deFilharmonie in the renovated Elisabeth Hall.

Revelations
Season 2016-2017

Revelations examines the power of visions and starts out from the striking examples experienced by the 13^th-century Brabant poetess, writer and mystic Hadewych. In the tradition of the Christian mysticism of love, she cultivated an ecstatic love relationship with the divine Other as part of the search for the divine within herself.

Usher
Current season

House composer Annelies Van Parys and author Gaia Schoeters 'complete' an unfinished opera by Debussy based on a horror story of Edgar Allen Poe.

La voix humaine
Season 2016-2017

The soprano Naomi Beeldens is presenting her own interpretation of La Voix humaine by the French composer Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) on the basis of a written work by Jean Cocteau (1889-1963). 

Secrets
Season 2015-2016

An intimist musical production of the soprano Claron McFadden and the Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio inspired by personal and anonymous secrets collected from the public. 

Secrets
Season 2016-2017

As a source of inspiration for their intimist musical production Secrets, the soprano Claron McFadden and the Massot-Florizoone-Horbaczewski jazz trio chose… secrets. + CD RELAESE JANUARU 2017

Mitra
Current season

The portrait of an Iranian psychoanalyst who is wrongfully interned and her battle for freedom with almost mythical proportions.

Lilith
Season 2016-2017

Claron McFadden’s first music-theatre project as a theatre-maker tells the tragic tale of Lilith, Adam’s first wife, created simultaneously with him and on an equal footing. 

Listen to the Silence
Youth & Education
Youth
Season 2016-2017

Listen to the silence is an interactive performance for children – and adults – that immerses you in the intriguing musical world of the American philosopher-composer John Cage (1912-1992).

Nightshade: Aubergine
Current season

Claron McFadden goes in search of the common roots of our various cultures by focusing on one of the most iconic ingredients on the culinary scene: the aubergine. 

Polar Night
Season 2016-2017

Five artists from the collective Post uit Hessdalen retreated to the remote island Sørøya, where the polar night eliminates the distinction between day and night to examine our experience of time.

Façade: The last days of Mata Hari
Current season

And you must suffer
Season 2016-2017

In And you must suffer, the director Pierre Audi brings reflections on suffering and compassion of Bach's St. John Passion against a background of the moral and democratic deficit of our times.

Kings of war
Season 2016-2017

In Kings of War the director Ivo van Hove combines three of Shakespeare’s history plays to form an explosive compilation on the theme of power and responsibility. 

Banquet! (9+)
Current season

Private View
Season 2016-2017

For her first opera, Private View, the composer Annelies Van Parys chose to take as her starting point Alfred Hitchcock’s thriller Rear Window, about a murder in a block of flats. 

Roman Tragedies
Season 2016-2017

In Roman Tragedies the director Ivo van Hove presents three plays by Shakespeare together in a six-hour performance on the subject of our visual culture and our political mechanisms. 

Matterhonger #4: REDEMPTION
Current season

Matterhonger unites artists and the audience in a shared curiosity and it all takes place on a festive, food-oriented evening at our own rehearsal rooms. 

Le coupeur d' eau
Season 2016-2017

In Le coupeur d'eau Dirk Roofthooft gives voice to a water company official, who looks back on the collective suicide of a family, after he visited them to cut off their water supply. 

Kings of war
Season 2015-2016

Directed by Ivo van Hove. Kings of War combines Henry V, Henry VI and Richard III into a single, explosive play about leadership.

ParadiseHell
TRANSLAB - 2016-2017

ParadiseHell brings together young musicians to create a music-theatre production inspired by the work of Hieronymus Bosch, under the guidance of outstanding musicians and theatre-makers. 

The Valley (an apocalypse)
Current season

An ominous confrontation between father and daughter. Hidden family secrets and years of unspoken feelings come to light.

Medeamaterial
TRANSLAB - 2016-2017

Intrigued by the character of Medea and inspired by a text by Heiner Müller, the collective lab.oratorium will examine our globalised world.

Matterhonger # 2 - Migration
Season 2016-2017

Matterhonger unites artists and the audience in a shared curiosity and it all takes place on a festive, food-oriented evening at our own rehearsal rooms. 

Diary of One Who Disappeared
Current season

Leoš Janaček wrote a song cycle in 22 scenes about a loving village boy. Annelies Van Parys writes an answer to this gripping story. Ivo Van Hove directs.

Songbook
Season 2016-2017

Inspired by the Great American Songbook, the canon of the important jazz and light music of the 20th century, Claron McFadden and Tuur Florizoone have compiled their own repertoire.

Calamity / Billy
Current season

A musictheatreproject about two mythical characters from the American West: Calamity Jane and Billy the Kid.

Myriam
Current season

A multidisciplinary sensory operatrip  inspired by Whitley Strieber's horror classic The Hunger.

Serge
Current season

And you must suffer
Season 2015-2016

Many music lovers experience Bach's St John Passion as short but intense. Its text connects poetry to the biblical passion story while the music swerves between narrative recitatives and chorales. 

Kings of War
Current season

In Kings of War the director Ivo van Hove combines three of Shakespeare’s history plays to form an explosive compilation on the theme of power and responsibility. 

Roman Tragedies
Current season

Director Ivo van Hove presents three plays by Shakespeare, all together during a six-hour performance on the subject of our visual culture and our political mechanisms. A political tour de force!

Private View
Season 2015-2016

Annelies Van Parys, one of the resident composers at Muziektheater Transparant, writes Private View, her first  opera, for the Opera XXI festival.

Woth
Season 2015-2016

With WOTH (Weighing of the Heart), the highly individual musician Liesa Van der Aa is seeking a way through the moral chaos of our polyphonous world

Van den Vos
Season 2015-2016

Inspired by the epic fable Reynard, FC Bergman, Toneelhuis and Muziektheater Transparant play a timeless piece with text by Josse de Pauw and music by Liesa van der Aa. 

The Cutter-off of Water
Season 2015-2016

Published in 1989, Marguerite Duras' Le coupeur d’eau (The Cutter-off of Water) is a moving short story inspired by a tragic fait divers: the suicide of an entire family after a waterworks employee cut off the water.

Winterreise
Season 2015-2016

Winterreise: a journey into the unknown, a trip through a bleak landscape, the loneliness of an individual struggling with his fears and desires.