An adaptation of the third part of the Mozart's Da Ponte Trilogy by Director Tom Goossens, resident at TRANSLAB.
After Così, Muziektheater Transparant and DESCHONECOMPANIE work together on Le Nozze. Tom Goossens directs and rewrites this third part of THEDAPONTETRILOGY. A man and a woman with life experience and a flailing boy speak in a language based on Mozart and Da Ponte’s Le Nozze di Figaro. With only the most essential attributes, they construct the estate and the marriage of a count and a countess, their servants and their relatives. To breathe new life into their love, the countess dresses up as the servant girl the count has a crush on. The count wants to spend the first wedding night with the servant and feels like her brand new groom. The young Cherubino is in love and has to disguise himself in order to keep seeing the countess. Everyone dresses up as everyone else.
“If 'Le Nozze' is a fancy-dress ball, it’s certainly one that’s full of self-confidence, jokingly mocking genre conventions and dressing Mozart’s music in the fresh new outfit it has been crying out for.”
De Standaard **** - 5 August 2019
“... Goossens’ talent for finding the right people should not be underestimated. Mozart’s opera buffa unfolds in a minimal but effective set ... Quite apart from the originality and strength of Goossens’ libretto, which is yet another gem of parlando and speak-singing, in this work two generations and two theatrical styles meet...”
Etcetera - 14 August 2019
Credits
- Composition • W.A. Mozart
- Text • Lorenzo Daponte
- Concept | Direction | Text Adaptation • Tom Goossens
- Musical Direction | Arrangements | Piano • Wouter Deltour
- Musical Dramaturgy • Lalina Goddard
- Scenography | Lighting design • Geert Vanoorlé
- Costumes • Marij De Brabandere
- Play • Ineke Nijssen / Hendrik Van Doorn / Jef Hellemans
- Vocals • Annelies Van Gramberen / Esther Kouwenhoven
- Saxophone • Jolien Van De Sande
| Location | Dates | Hour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theater aan Zee (Oostende) +32 59 33 90 00 www.theateraanzee.be Show on map | 1/8/2019 2/8/2019 3/8/2019 3/8/2019 4/8/2019 4/8/2019 | 21:00 21:00 17:00 21:00 17:00 21:00 | |
| MoMeNT (Tongeren) +32 499 56 01 53 https://moment.tongeren.be/ Show on map | 9/8/2019 | 20:00 | |
| De Munt Brussel (Brussel) +32 2 229 12 00 www.demunt.be Show on map | 3/3/2020 4/3/2020 | 14:00 20:00 | |
| Opera Ballet Vlaanderen - Antwerpen (Antwerpen) +32 70 22 02 02 www.operaballet.be | 21/3/2020 | 20:00 | cancelled by corona |
| O. (Rotterdam) + 31 1 436 60 70 https://o-festival.nl/ | 23/5/2020 | - | cancelled by corona |
| Zomer in Oostende (Oostende) 00 32 59 33 90 00 www.zomerino.be Show on map | 11/7/2020 12/7/2020 | 14:00 14:00 |