FEDORA - Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Roadshow 2024

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Opera Ballet Vlaanderen Roadshow 2024

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25 September 2024

Antwerp / Belgium

Platform Members, Roadshow

‘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 took 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 invited 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 created the performance Ombra. Composer Steven Prengels developed a new orchestral score in which he interwove well-known classical masterpieces by the likes of Händel, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven into new layers of meaning.

Let's not forget one of the most heartwarming moments of last season: the surprise the audience had in store for the performers on stage after the premiere of Ombra. An occasional choir once again chanted Ombra mai fu (with which the show had opened), including sign language. The emotion on stage could be felt throughout the hall.

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Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (OBV) presents opera, ballet, concerts, and music theater as contemporary and living art, from its home bases in Ghent and Antwerp.

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