Madrigals
Director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe stages Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi with utopian enthusiasm.
The inexhaustible simplicity of our possibilities. A multifaceted choir no longer sings with the wind, but goes back to a formless beginning, where all the meanings of love and conflict can still take shape. Director Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe stages Monteverdi’s Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi with utopian enthusiasm. In an ancient grotto, the singing and dancing of the performers shares equal prominence with new symbols and contemporary artworks. Present, past and future thus merge into a single point, a zero point.
Production:
Productie Muziektheater Transparant and d e t h e a t e r m a k e r.
Coproduction: DE SINGEL, Productiehuis THeater Rotterdam, Concertgebouw Brugge, C-TAKT, B’Rock Orchestra and Perpodium.
Distribution: ART HAPPENS
In collaboration with O. Festival for Opera, Music, Theatre, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, Troubleyn/Laboratorium en Matterhorn vzw.
With the support of Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government and the Flemish Government.
With thanks to Showtex, Kopspel, Divi-divi and the Caves of Dinant.
| Location | Dates | Hour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| ROMAEUROPA FESTIVAL (Rome) +39 6 455 530 50 www.romaeuropa.net Show on map | 27/9/2022 | 20:00 | |
| Toneelhuis Antwerpen (Antwerpen) +32 3 224 88 44 www.toneelhuis.be Show on map | 29/10/2022 30/10/2022 | 20:00 20:00 | |
| Tandem ArrasDouai (Douai) +33 (0)9 71 00 56 78 www.tandem-arrasdouai.eu Show on map | 4/4/2023 5/4/2023 | 20:00 20:00 | |
| La Vilette () https://lavillette.com/ | 14/4/2023 15/4/2023 | 20:00 20:00 | |
| Le Maillon (Strasbourg cedex 2) +33 3 88 27 61 81 www.le-maillon.com Show on map | 11/5/2023 12/5/2023 | 20:00 20:00 | |
WEBSITE MADRIGALS.BE STUDIE DIER
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
