Director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe stages Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi with utopian enthusiasm.

A multifaceted choir, accompanied by musicians, no longer sings with the wind but returns to a formless beginning. A place where all meanings of love and conflict are still to be sensed. With utopian enthusiasm, director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe stages Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi.

Past, present, and future are brought into confrontation in this choreography and ultimately find reconciliation.

Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe has created a reworking of his most successful performance Madrigals especially for KMSKA. Dancing bodies and acoustic singing enter into a dialogue with a selection of carefully chosen works by the Old Masters. Monteverdi is said to have met Rubens at the court of Mantua…

 

“In Madrigals, Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe sets to work with Claudio Monteverdi's 8th book of madrigals. But since the emotions of love and struggle belong to us all, the same applies to the performance of canti guerrieri and amorosi. Privileges and dogmas do not exist in BAM's artistic universe, so the dancers sing and the singers dance. Monteverdi survives all that. More than that, his music is the perfect soundtrack for an hour-and-a-half-long ritual where our humanity itself is addressed and celebrated. Af”

Chantal Pattyn

“They become one body. The beats alternating with the classical performance of Monteverdi work wonderfully here.”

Lotte Ogiers, Pzazz

“A good example of how music, theatrical images, humour and emotion go together is when, on the empty silver stage, a fire suddenly ignites - ignite the spark! - and the performers form a circle around it.”

Kristof van Baarle, E-tcetera

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Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten Antwerpen (Antwerpen)
+32 3 238 78 09
www.kmska.be
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