Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe
MADRIGALS
Dates
fri 21 jan 2022 - 20:00
sat 22 jan 2022 - 20:00
sun 23 jan 2022 - 15:00
location
Rode zaal
duration
1h 40' language
English surtitles
Is part of
An uninhibited orgy in which the boundaries between the human and the divine are blurred
Following the decision of the Council of State to lift the closure of the cultural sector, we can confirm that this concert can take place in safe conditions with a maximum capacity of 200 spectators. Tickets already sold for this activity are no longer valid. Ticket holders who have received a refund in the meantime will be contacted personally. Please note that new seats are not numbered.
Theatre maker Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe tackles Claudio Monteverdi. At the end of his life this prince of late Italian Renaissance music composed his vibrant Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi. Meirhaeghe moulds these sparkling vocal works about war and love into a cry for freedom fuelled by passion and a fighting spirit. With the Ancient Greeks in mind, he creates a contemporary and uninhibited orgy, in which the boundaries between the human and the divine are blurred. For Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, theatre is a crossroads in time: a time machine in the midst of the present in which distant pasts and futures, genesis and utopia, merge into a radical new narrative with a corresponding timbre and cast. Beyond the distinction between insider and outsider, 'MADRIGALS' presents a community brimming with uniqueness and talent in which conservative dogmas and stigmas yield to sexuality and release.
Theatre maker Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe tackles Claudio Monteverdi. At the end of his life this prince of late Italian Renaissance music composed his vibrant Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi. Meirhaeghe moulds these sparkling vocal works about war and love into a cry for freedom fuelled by passion and a fighting spirit. With the Ancient Greeks in mind, he creates a contemporary and uninhibited orgy, in which the boundaries between the human and the divine are blurred. For Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe, theatre is a crossroads in time: a time machine in the midst of the present in which distant pasts and futures, genesis and utopia, merge into a radical new narrative with a corresponding timbre and cast. Beyond the distinction between insider and outsider, 'MADRIGALS' presents a community brimming with uniqueness and talent in which conservative dogmas and stigmas yield to sexuality and release.
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