Wouter Van Looy
Wouter Van Looy is an active participant in the international opera and music-theatre world. His creations have premiered at the Ruhrtriënnale, Staatsoper Berlin, Luzerner Theater, Theaterspektakel Zürich, Mexico Musica y Escena in Mexico, Opéra de Lille, Centro Cultural de Bélem in Lisbon, Holland Festival, Bregenzer Festspiele, Teatro Comunale di Bologna and elsewhere. He is a director-in-residence at Muziektheater Transparant and is co-artistic director with Guy Coolen. Van Looy was recently nominated by Opern Welt for his directing of Kopernikus at the Staatsoper Berlin.
Wouter Van Looy also founded Zonzo Compagnie and organises BIG BANG, an adventurous music festival for a young audience that operates in thirteen European cities and, since 2019, also in Ottawa. BIG BANG received the EFFE award for its role as one of Europe’s most innovative festivals. Zonzo Compagnie has staged such award-winning productions as Listen to the silence, Slumberland, Mile(s)tones and BerBerio. Wouter Van Looy has won the YAMA Award (2012, 2015 and 2019), the KLARA prize (2013), the YEAH Award (2013), the Music Theatre NOW Award (2015) and the EFFE award (2015).
Photo: Mirjam Devriendt
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Judith's gaze - (Current season) | Concept | Direction | |
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The mass man - (Current season) | Concept | Direction | |
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Aus den visionen - (TRANSLAB - 2022-2023) | Director | Coach | |
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Virginia - (TRANSLAB - 2021-2022) | Coaching | Final direction | |
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L' Acte de respirer - (TRANSLAB - 2021-2022) | Coaching | Final direction | |
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Virginia - (TRANSLAB - 2020-2021) | Coaching | Final direction | |
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Every Ending - (TRANSLAB - 2019-2020) | Concept | Direction | |
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Bloot - (TRANSLAB - 2018-2019) | Director | Coach | |
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LES ÂMES PERDUES - (TRANSLAB - 2018-2019) | Direction | |
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Les Indes Galantes - (TRANSLAB - 2018-2019) | Artistic coordinator | |
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Moira - (TRANSLAB - 2018-2019) | Coach | |
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Quartett - (Season 2021-2022) | Text Adaptation, Direction | |
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Revelations - (Season 2020-2021) | Direction | |
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Quartett - (Season 2020-2021) | Text Adaptation, Direction | |
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The mass man - (Season 2020-2021) | Concept | Direction | |
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The Towers of Beirut (10+) - (Season 2019-2020) | Director | Scenography | |
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The Towers of Beirut (10+) - (Season 2018-2019) | Director | Scenography | |
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Earth Diver - (Season 2018-2019) | Scenography, Concept | Direction | |
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Revelations - (Season 2018-2019) | Direction | Scenography | |
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Earth Diver - (Season 2017-2018) | Scenography, Concept | Direction | |
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Flow My Tears - (Season 2017-2018) | Concept | Direction | |
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La voix humaine - (Season 2017-2018) | Direction | Scenography, Concept | |
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Revelations - (Season 2017-2018) | Direction | Scenography | |
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Die Zauberflöte - (Season 2016-2017) | Direction, Set Design | |
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La voix humaine - (Season 2016-2017) | Direction | Scenography | |
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Revelations - (Season 2016-2017) | Direction | |
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Listen to the Silence - (Season 2015-2016) | Direction, Set Design | |
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LES ÂMES PERDUES - (TRANSLAB - 2017-2018) | Direction | |
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Windischgraetz - (TRANSLAB - 2016-2017) | Direction | |
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LES ÂMES PERDUES - (TRANSLAB - 2016-2017) | Coach | |
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La voix humaine - (TRANSLAB - 2015-2016) | Direction | Scenography | |
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Abendrot - (TRANSLAB - 2015-2016) | Direction | |
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Listen to the Silence - (Season 2014-2015) | Direction, Set Design | |
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The Queen without a country - (Season 2014-2015) | Concept | Direction | |
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There is no why here - (Season 2014-2015) | Direction | |
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Opera Buffa - (Season 2014-2015) | Advice | |
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Songs of war - (Season 2013-2014) | Concept | Direction | |
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Blond Eckbert - (Season 2011-2012) | Direction | |
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Pelleas et Melisande - (Season 2011-2012) | Video, Concept | Direction | |
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Porcelain - (Season 2009-2010) | Direction, Set Design | |
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Void - (Season 2008-2009) | Direction | |
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The Fairy Queen - (Season 2008-2009) | Direction | |
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Villa Vivaldi - (Season 2007-2008) | Direction | |
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Bluebeard's Castle - (Season 2005-2006) | Direction | |
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Arthur / De Queeste - (Season 2004-2005) | Direction | |
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Drift - (Season 2003-2004) | Direction | |
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Canti d'Amor - (Season 2013-2014) | Scenography | Video , Concept | Direction | |
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Dido and Aeneas - (Season 2012-2013) | Direction | |
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Canti d' Amor II - (Season 2014-2015) | Direction | |
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Solitude - (Season 2008-2009) | Concept | Direction | |
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L'orfeo - (Season 2010-2011) | Concept | Direction, Scenography | |
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Listen to the Silence - (Season 2016-2017) | Direction | Scenography | |
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A girl A boy A river - (Season 2006-2007) | Concept | Direction | |
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Dido - (Season 2004-2005) | Direction | |
