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Ombra

Alain Platel & Steven Prengels
Opera Ballet Vlaanderen / coproductie laGeste

Alain Platel brings together choir members, dancers and orchestral musicians for a new performance that puts encounters at centre stage.

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‘Never was a shade of a tree so lovely...’, it says in Händel’s famous aria Ombra mai fu. Alain Platel and visual artist Berlinde De Bruyckere take inspiration from the shade of a tree as a meeting place, as a place where people all over the world and throughout history come together to rest, meet or discuss problems. De Bruyckere’s poetic world of images seems to share a kinship with Platel’s universe.

After the overwhelming success of C(H)OEURS 2022, Platel once again invites the chorus members, dancers and orchestral musicians of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen to join a creative dialogue. Together with singer and performer TK Russell and guest choreographers Mélanie Lomoff and Luis Marrafa, they create the performance Ombra. Composer Steven Prengels is developing a new orchestral score in which he interweaves well-known classical masterpieces by the likes of Händel, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven into new layers of meaning.

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directed by Alain Platel
musical concept and composition
Steven Prengels
conductor
Marc Piollet
Singer
TK Russell
dance
dancers Opera Ballet Flanders
choir & orchestra
Opera Ballet Flanders
scenography
Berlinde De Bruyckere
costume design
Dotje Demuynck
lighting design
Felice Ross
chorusmaster
Jan Schweiger
guest choreographer
Mélanie Lomoff, Luis Marrafa
scenography assistance in direction and choreography
Bérengère Bodin, Quan Bui Ngoc, Romain Guion
dramaturgy
Hildegard De Vuyst, Koen Bollen

production
Opera Ballet Flanders
co-production
laGeste

calender (16)

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duration +-2 hours
no language

when from 30.03.24 (première) till 14.04.24 in Opera Antwerpen and from 24.04.24 till 08.05.23 in Opera Gent
where Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
tickets via Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Free introduction (in Dutch) 60 minutes before the start of the performance.
After the performances on 14 April (Opera Antwerp) and 5 May (Opera Ghent), you can attend an afterword, 10 minutes after the end of the performance. The dramaturges will engage in a conversation with the production team and the audience.

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