Program
16-20 October 2003
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg Utrecht, Akademietheater, Theater Kikker, Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement
Een dans voor Lieveke
Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement (the Netherlands)
7+
Music: Koen Dejonghe, Librettist: Renée Harp, Director: Marcel Sijm
Everyone knows the story of Cinderella. Lieveke, a girl with a street organ, fares the same way. She has two evil sisters who are after Peerke, a rosy-cheeked and attractive farmer's son. This unique musical comedy centred around a street organ is performed on a special location. The Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement [national museum from musical clock to street organ] forms the decor of the performance, and it is accompanied by five monumental dance organs. refreshing
Zingen met…
4+
The littlest visitors of Yo! Opera can sit in a circle while listening to and singing along with real opera singers!
Soprano Monique Krüs and mezzo soprano Xenia Meijer have made a collection of their favourite arias and songs. They will sing them together with you in the foyer of Muziekcentrum Vredenburg.
Dan ben ik straks zo’n diva
Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium)
14+
Director: Inés Sauer, Singers: Elise Caluwaerts, Anderske Kaspersma, Liselotte Mostinckx
Dan ben ik straks zo’n diva [And then I'll be a diva …] is about what keeps three young sopranos busy. What is their goal? And what are the things they still are to find out? A musical theatrical search within the boundaries of opera.
Moskau Tscherjomuschki
Junge Oper Stuttgart (Germany)
14+
Composer: D. Shostakovitch, Librettist: W.S. Mass, M.A. Tsjerwinski, Musical Direction: Wolfgang Heins, Director: Manfred Weiss, Choir: 35 young singers
Moscow during the nineteen fifties: after many intrigues, a colourful group of homeless people is assigned a house in the newly constructed 'Trabant City' of Tscherjomuschki.
Moskau Tscherjomuschki is a light, but at the same time sinister satire on every day life in the communist city of Moscow.
Create
Ingrid Mwangi (Kenya/Germany)
4+
Create is a funny but moving musical performance on the opportunities we have to express ourselves and to communicate with the outside world. Video en vocal artist Ingrid Mwangi takes you into a very special world. The many colours of her voice bring an animated cartoon to life. It even seems as if she can influence the weather.
Radio Ping Pong
John Torso/ Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium)
5+
Four musicians in a salon. There is a lamp next to each musician, which can be switched on and off. A bit further you will find dress up clothes, illustrations, wires, audio equipment and more junk. Music can be heard. Suddenly it becomes clear that not the musicians, but the audience get the music going. This is the start of a lot of toing and froing between audience and orchestra.
Vocal Box
Letizia Renzini (Italy)
5+
Have a seat in the 'photo booth' where an audio and visual portrait is taken of you. Your facial expressions and the sound you produce are connected in a loop. All portraits are projected in rows on a video screen and are as it were transformed into an enormous polyphonic perpetual mobile of heads singing together.
Ay dia Luna
De Kopergietery (Belgium)
5+
Over the past few years, a vocal youth ensemble has come into existence under the wings of the Ghent-based Kopergietery. After a successful tour they will this season embark on a journey together with an orchestra from Ghent which has a Northern African background.
Feral Choir (UK)
4+
When you join the Feral Choir you will be amazed by the natural capabilities of your voice. Sing along with the Feral Choir and you will discover that your voice has many more possibilities than you ever imagined. In this improvisation programme for great choir and soloist all can enjoy themselves freely.
Pacamambo
Chants Libres (Canada)
8+
Music: Zack Settel, Librettist: Wajdi Mouawad, Director: Claude Poissant
After having being missing for three weeks, the little girl Julie is found in the basement of her deceased grandmother. A psychologist tries to find out why Julie and her dog were hiding there. Bit by bit Julie's secret is revealed. She dreamed how, during the night she died, grandmother announced that she would leave Julie a very special inheritance. It is a dream about a beautiful and miraculous country: Pacamambo.
Hans en Grietje
Jeugdtheater Sonnevanck en het Nieuw Ensemble (the Netherlands)
6+
Music: Gerard Beljon, Librettist: Jean Debefve and Sofie Kassies, Director: Flora
Verbrugge
Hansel and Gretel is a beautiful story on children's fears. Youth theatre company Sonnevanck and the Nieuw Ensemble succeeded in transforming it into a fun and exciting musical theatrical show. Especially for this project, Gerard Beljon wrote a composition which expresses all kinds of emotions. Act and music form a perfect match, which creates quite some excitement on stage.
Presentation master class Roberta Alexander
During the Yo! Opera Festival, six singers get the chance to work for one entire day on a classical opera piece of their choice with the famous soprano Roberta Alexander. She pays attention to technique and presentation, but especially to performing opera for children. During the final presentation the candidates are thrown in at the deep end: children get a chance to ask them all kinds of difficult questions.
Vocaal laboratorium
Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium
Everyone recognises the arias from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte or Verdi's La Traviata. But who has ever listened to the beautiful and often refreshing pieces written by contemporary composers, full of caprices and unexpected turns, new harmonies and theatricalities? Two singers of the Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium will show you some vocal theatrical mastery.
Daniela
Buffo Operamakers (the Netherlands)
12+
Composer: Pablo Escande, Librettist: Suzanne van Lohuizen, Director: Anthony Heidweiller, in co-production with LAB (of De Berenkuil)
Daniela is an opera. It is modeled after the life of an Argentine woman. She's the type who takes street children into her own house. One day, the police are at the door. Daniela has stolen a child, they say. A mother wants it back. Indignation everywhere. Until the truth comes to light.
Open Zangpodium (with Peer de Graaf)
Pollicino
Nationale Reisopera (the Netherlands)
8+
Music: Hans Werner Henze, Librettist: Giuseppe Di Leva, based on fairy tales by Collodi, Grimm and Parrault, Director: Jetske Mijnssen, Conductor: Aldert Vermeulen
Pollicino is an exciting opera on Tom Thumb and his six little brothers, who are abandoned by their parents in a forest. With the help of the animals of the forest, the children find the house of the Man-Eater and his wife. However, new dangers await them there…
Drift
Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium)
12+
Music: Monteverdi et al, Director: Wouter Van Looy, Musical Director: Jan Van Outryve
Shortly after having written his first opera L’Orfeo, Monteverdi chose the myth of Ariadne and Theseus as the starting point for his project. Except for the famous Lamento d’Arianna, the entire composition was lost. However, the libretto was saved. At the invitation of the Vlaamse Opera, Zomer van Antwerpen and Yo!, Transparant worked together with a cast of forty young singers and musicians to make an exclusive version of this piece of cultural heritage from the Baroque.
Kloppend Hertz
Yo! jeugdoperawerkplaats and HKU schrijfopleiding & KMT
Twelve young composers, fresh graduates or still conservatory students, were given the following assignment: write a short piece of ten minutes and make sure it is suitable and engaging for a young audience. The result of this young opera workshop can be heard during a marathon presentation. A perfect night for whoever wants to meet a new generation of young opera makers!
Romeo & Farida
Xynix Opera (the Netherlands)
10+
Music: Fons Merkies, Librettist: Maartje Duin, Director: Joke Hoolboom
East meets West in music; on the impossible love between Romeo and Farida, two young people with a different cultural background. In this dynamic youth opera, Fons Merkies combines Turkish classical music (saz and neh) with Western music (percussion).
Lá-lá-lá Opera, familieconcert
Leoni Jansen
7+
Featuring the Max Tak Orchestra, Claron Mc Fadden, Harry Peeters, Monique Krüs, Xenia Meijer, Frank Dolphin Wong, Eveline Karssen, Ali B., MC Aldrin, De Kickers, children's choirs from De Munt and many others. Direction and Guided Tour: Leoni Jansen, Conductor: Leonard van Goudoever
Lá-Lá-Lá Opera is suitable for all audiences. And you can just sing along! It doesn't matter whether you have or have not been to an opera before.
Stadsschouwburg Utrecht, Muziekcentrum Vredenburg Utrecht, Akademietheater, Theater Kikker, Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement
Een dans voor Lieveke
Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement (the Netherlands)
7+
Music: Koen Dejonghe, Librettist: Renée Harp, Director: Marcel Sijm
Everyone knows the story of Cinderella. Lieveke, a girl with a street organ, fares the same way. She has two evil sisters who are after Peerke, a rosy-cheeked and attractive farmer's son. This unique musical comedy centred around a street organ is performed on a special location. The Nationaal Museum van Speelklok tot Pierement [national museum from musical clock to street organ] forms the decor of the performance, and it is accompanied by five monumental dance organs. refreshing
Zingen met…
4+
The littlest visitors of Yo! Opera can sit in a circle while listening to and singing along with real opera singers!
Soprano Monique Krüs and mezzo soprano Xenia Meijer have made a collection of their favourite arias and songs. They will sing them together with you in the foyer of Muziekcentrum Vredenburg.
Dan ben ik straks zo’n diva
Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium)
14+
Director: Inés Sauer, Singers: Elise Caluwaerts, Anderske Kaspersma, Liselotte Mostinckx
Dan ben ik straks zo’n diva [And then I'll be a diva …] is about what keeps three young sopranos busy. What is their goal? And what are the things they still are to find out? A musical theatrical search within the boundaries of opera.
Moskau Tscherjomuschki
Junge Oper Stuttgart (Germany)
14+
Composer: D. Shostakovitch, Librettist: W.S. Mass, M.A. Tsjerwinski, Musical Direction: Wolfgang Heins, Director: Manfred Weiss, Choir: 35 young singers
Moscow during the nineteen fifties: after many intrigues, a colourful group of homeless people is assigned a house in the newly constructed 'Trabant City' of Tscherjomuschki.
Moskau Tscherjomuschki is a light, but at the same time sinister satire on every day life in the communist city of Moscow.
Create
Ingrid Mwangi (Kenya/Germany)
4+
Create is a funny but moving musical performance on the opportunities we have to express ourselves and to communicate with the outside world. Video en vocal artist Ingrid Mwangi takes you into a very special world. The many colours of her voice bring an animated cartoon to life. It even seems as if she can influence the weather.
Radio Ping Pong
John Torso/ Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium)
5+
Four musicians in a salon. There is a lamp next to each musician, which can be switched on and off. A bit further you will find dress up clothes, illustrations, wires, audio equipment and more junk. Music can be heard. Suddenly it becomes clear that not the musicians, but the audience get the music going. This is the start of a lot of toing and froing between audience and orchestra.
Vocal Box
Letizia Renzini (Italy)
5+
Have a seat in the 'photo booth' where an audio and visual portrait is taken of you. Your facial expressions and the sound you produce are connected in a loop. All portraits are projected in rows on a video screen and are as it were transformed into an enormous polyphonic perpetual mobile of heads singing together.
Ay dia Luna
De Kopergietery (Belgium)
5+
Over the past few years, a vocal youth ensemble has come into existence under the wings of the Ghent-based Kopergietery. After a successful tour they will this season embark on a journey together with an orchestra from Ghent which has a Northern African background.
Feral Choir (UK)
4+
When you join the Feral Choir you will be amazed by the natural capabilities of your voice. Sing along with the Feral Choir and you will discover that your voice has many more possibilities than you ever imagined. In this improvisation programme for great choir and soloist all can enjoy themselves freely.
Pacamambo
Chants Libres (Canada)
8+
Music: Zack Settel, Librettist: Wajdi Mouawad, Director: Claude Poissant
After having being missing for three weeks, the little girl Julie is found in the basement of her deceased grandmother. A psychologist tries to find out why Julie and her dog were hiding there. Bit by bit Julie's secret is revealed. She dreamed how, during the night she died, grandmother announced that she would leave Julie a very special inheritance. It is a dream about a beautiful and miraculous country: Pacamambo.
Hans en Grietje
Jeugdtheater Sonnevanck en het Nieuw Ensemble (the Netherlands)
6+
Music: Gerard Beljon, Librettist: Jean Debefve and Sofie Kassies, Director: Flora
Verbrugge
Hansel and Gretel is a beautiful story on children's fears. Youth theatre company Sonnevanck and the Nieuw Ensemble succeeded in transforming it into a fun and exciting musical theatrical show. Especially for this project, Gerard Beljon wrote a composition which expresses all kinds of emotions. Act and music form a perfect match, which creates quite some excitement on stage.
Presentation master class Roberta Alexander
During the Yo! Opera Festival, six singers get the chance to work for one entire day on a classical opera piece of their choice with the famous soprano Roberta Alexander. She pays attention to technique and presentation, but especially to performing opera for children. During the final presentation the candidates are thrown in at the deep end: children get a chance to ask them all kinds of difficult questions.
Vocaal laboratorium
Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium
Everyone recognises the arias from Mozart's Cosi Fan Tutte or Verdi's La Traviata. But who has ever listened to the beautiful and often refreshing pieces written by contemporary composers, full of caprices and unexpected turns, new harmonies and theatricalities? Two singers of the Nederlands Vocaal Laboratorium will show you some vocal theatrical mastery.
Daniela
Buffo Operamakers (the Netherlands)
12+
Composer: Pablo Escande, Librettist: Suzanne van Lohuizen, Director: Anthony Heidweiller, in co-production with LAB (of De Berenkuil)
Daniela is an opera. It is modeled after the life of an Argentine woman. She's the type who takes street children into her own house. One day, the police are at the door. Daniela has stolen a child, they say. A mother wants it back. Indignation everywhere. Until the truth comes to light.
Open Zangpodium (with Peer de Graaf)
Pollicino
Nationale Reisopera (the Netherlands)
8+
Music: Hans Werner Henze, Librettist: Giuseppe Di Leva, based on fairy tales by Collodi, Grimm and Parrault, Director: Jetske Mijnssen, Conductor: Aldert Vermeulen
Pollicino is an exciting opera on Tom Thumb and his six little brothers, who are abandoned by their parents in a forest. With the help of the animals of the forest, the children find the house of the Man-Eater and his wife. However, new dangers await them there…
Drift
Muziektheater Transparant (Belgium)
12+
Music: Monteverdi et al, Director: Wouter Van Looy, Musical Director: Jan Van Outryve
Shortly after having written his first opera L’Orfeo, Monteverdi chose the myth of Ariadne and Theseus as the starting point for his project. Except for the famous Lamento d’Arianna, the entire composition was lost. However, the libretto was saved. At the invitation of the Vlaamse Opera, Zomer van Antwerpen and Yo!, Transparant worked together with a cast of forty young singers and musicians to make an exclusive version of this piece of cultural heritage from the Baroque.
Kloppend Hertz
Yo! jeugdoperawerkplaats and HKU schrijfopleiding & KMT
Twelve young composers, fresh graduates or still conservatory students, were given the following assignment: write a short piece of ten minutes and make sure it is suitable and engaging for a young audience. The result of this young opera workshop can be heard during a marathon presentation. A perfect night for whoever wants to meet a new generation of young opera makers!
Romeo & Farida
Xynix Opera (the Netherlands)
10+
Music: Fons Merkies, Librettist: Maartje Duin, Director: Joke Hoolboom
East meets West in music; on the impossible love between Romeo and Farida, two young people with a different cultural background. In this dynamic youth opera, Fons Merkies combines Turkish classical music (saz and neh) with Western music (percussion).
Lá-lá-lá Opera, familieconcert
Leoni Jansen
7+
Featuring the Max Tak Orchestra, Claron Mc Fadden, Harry Peeters, Monique Krüs, Xenia Meijer, Frank Dolphin Wong, Eveline Karssen, Ali B., MC Aldrin, De Kickers, children's choirs from De Munt and many others. Direction and Guided Tour: Leoni Jansen, Conductor: Leonard van Goudoever
Lá-Lá-Lá Opera is suitable for all audiences. And you can just sing along! It doesn't matter whether you have or have not been to an opera before.
