Name: Opera Melancholica
Start: 2020-01-19T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2020-03-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Koninklijke Schouwburg

Admin

Organization

Singer

Rene M Broeders

Physician-Director

Tenor

Santiago Bürgi

Roderick

Georgi Sztojanov

Baritone

Drew Santini

William

Peter Rolfe Dauz

Soprano

Lucie Chartin

Madeline

Emma Fekete

Ellen Landa

Physician

Conductor

Carlo Boccadoro

Stage director

Serge van Veggel

Set designer

Herbert Janse

Costume designer

Mirjam Pater

Lighting designer

Uri Rapaport

Sound designer

Arne Bock

Choreographer

Ed Wubbe

Hair and Make-up

Nienke Algra

Opera2day

Orchestra

New European Ensemble

English

Opera Melancholica

The Hague

Netherlands

Koninklijke Schouwburg

Opera Melancholica (2020) by OPERA2DAY, Scapino Ballet and New European Ensemble. Recorded in The Royal Theatre The Hague in March 2020.

Opera Melancholica Glass

Public

Dutch

Approved

OPERA2DAY and the New European Ensemble welcomed the audience to the anatomical theatre of the human mind. Through cinematic minimal music by composer Philip Glass and a story by Edgar Allan Poe, OPERA2DAY presented fantastic visions and horrifying delusions live at the theatre, boosted by a choreography by Scapino Ballet Rotterdam. The production focused on the Dutch première of Glass's compelling opera in two acts 'The Fall of the House of Usher', with a libretto by Arthur Yorinks based on Poe's story. The piece portrays the melancholiac pur sang Roderick Usher and his twin sister Madeline, who in this production is rendered by both a soprano and a female dancer. With Opera Melancholica, we immersed the spectators in Usher's melancholia and showed them all corners of the human mind.

In Opera Melancholica, thematic lines from previous OPERA2DAY productions came together. Hamlet (2018) was a psychological thriller. Dolhuys Kermis ('Madhouse Fair', 2013) brought a psychiatric institution to life on location, one of the five best performances of that year according to leading Dutch newspaper NRC. We already crossed the line of the unconscious, then unconsciously frivolous, in Dr. Miracle's last illusion (2017), according to the critic of the Volkskrant 'artistic fusion of a high level'.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble