Name: Transformations
Start: 2024-02-07T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-02-11T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Amare

Organization

Conductor

Sam Weller

Stage director

Rennik-Jan Neggers

Costume designer

Sanne Oostervink

Set designer

Lighting designer

Jasper Nijholt

Dramaturge

Tom de Ronde

Singer

Thalia Cook-Hansen

Singer 1

Elisa Maayeshi

Samantha Faina

Singer 2

Hannah Gries

Femke Hulsman

Singer 3

Rommie Rochell

Stefanie Bruggeling

Singer 4

Sterre Decru

Henrik Enger Holm

Singer 5

Marcelo Alexandre

Singer 6

Jack Roberts

Wessel Wirken

Singer 7

Fabian Homburg

Singer 8

Dutch National Opera Academy

Orchestra

Ensemble from the Conservatorium van Amsterdam & The Royal Conservatoire The Hague

Ilmari Leisma

Cyprien Crabbé

Jaap van der Wel

engelsk

Transformations

The Hague

Netherlands

Amare

Conservatoriumzaal

Public

Opera

hollandsk

Approved

Accordionist

Instrumentalist

Archlutenist

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Bassist

Bassoonist

Cellist

Clarinetist

Contrabassist

Cornettist

Flutist

Guitarist

Harper

Harpsichordist

Hornist

Lutenist

Mandoline Player

Musette de cour Player

Oboist

Organist

Percussionist

Pianist

Recorder Player

Saxophonist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Trombonist

Trumpeter

Tuba Player

Vibraphonist

Viola Pomposa Player

Viola da gamba

Viola d’amore Player

Violinist

Violino Piccolo Player

Violist

Actor

Broadcasting

Chefdirigent Musiktheater

Choir

Choreographer

Chorus Director

Chorus master

Composer

Dancer

Executive producer

Extra

Hairstylist

Illustrator

Librettist

Makeup artist

Orchestra Operations

Other

Photographer

Poet

Repetiteur

Sound designer

Stage Manager

Teacher

Translator

Video designer

Vocal coach

Wig & Makeup Designer

Writer

Writing and performance

Tenor

Countertenor

Soprano

Baritone

Bass-baritone

Mezzo-soprano

Contralto

Bass

Alto

Child vocalist

Continuo

Silent

Spoken

Transformations promises an evening with “small comic masterpieces: grotesque, erotic, sly, and playful”. Poet Anne Sexton, self-proclaimed ‘mother of the insane’, transformed Grimm fairy tales into her own poetic language. Sexton’s sharp and dark sense of humour places these fairy tales in the light of her mental state and her social context, without losing the sinister rawness of the Grimm tales. Conrad Susa set Transformations to music, giving the fairy tales a new theatricality. This production places the piece in an intimate and dynamic chamber setting, where the audience can come closer, both physically and intellectually. The spectators will be taken from one fairy tale to another, where metaphors and similes let phantasies and associations roam free.

In the plot, Anne Sexton appears as the Tale-Teller of Transformations. She is the mother of the insane, and she wants to tell them a few stories. She wants to share some odd tales from Brothers Grimm that she transformed herself: The Golden Key, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The White Snake, Iron Hans, Rumpelstiltskin, Rapunzel, Godfather Death, The Wonderful Musician, Hansel and Gretel, and Briar Rose. Before she can tell the tales, she wants to present a clinical case introducing each one of them. In short prologues she describes cases with their symptoms, which transform and modernise the fairy tales that follow.

The prologues and the fairy tales become more and more intertwined, up to the point where it is impossible to consider them separately. Does Anne live in a fantasy? Or are the fantasies her reality?

English

Transformations by Susa, Fra (2024/2024), Instrueret af Rennik-Jan Neggers,, Dirigent Sam Weller, Amare, The Hague, Netherlands

Forestilling krediteringer (Medvirkende & Produktionshold )

Medvirkende

Produktionshold

Ensemble

Program, Information & Oversigt

Fotos

Yderligere læsning

Forestillingsdatoer og spillesteder

Spillesteder