Dutch National Opera

Codes

Gregory Caers / Bas Gaakeer

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Photo: Hugo Thomassen

Dates

16-21 March 2025

Location

Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Main Stage

Running time

TBA

Tickets

From € 23

Photo: Hugo Thomassen

Rituals for a multicultural city

The director Gregory Caers will once again be in the Opera Forward Festival. After offbeat productions with students in previous editions of OFF, in 2025 he will be working with a large group of young people from Rotterdam’s vocational theatre school, two Amsterdam student choirs (VU-Koor and Studentenkoor Amsterdam) and other students from (art) colleges around the Netherlands.

Rituals for a multicultural city

Codes is intended as a gift to the city of Amsterdam as it celebrates its 750th anniversary. In a city that is home to so many religions and cultures, Caers will work with the students to find rituals that are accessible and meaningful to all. While ever fewer people seem to feel an attachment to a specific religion, the yearning for connection in a polarised world is perhaps greater than ever. It is human nature to want to share strong emotions such as joy, sorrow or mourning and to find a way to express them as a community. To create a ritual everyone can feel part of, Caers and his team will return to the origins of various religions and rites, and then go back even earlier in time, to the cradle of human harmony.

Performance information

Musical direction Bas Gaakeer
Stage direction Gregory Caers
Set design Karel Vanhooren
Costume design Gerbrand Bos
Assistant costumes Eva Arends
Lighting design Dennis Diels
Choreography Shara Maaskant en Ada Daniele
Documentary filmmaker Pascal Poissonnier

Performers
Elise Bruinen
Steven van Oudshoorn
Nara Gonçalves
Dimitri Nijsse
Hannah Lak
Layla Mino
Nena Bouwhuis
Yanna Notterdam
Liv Paszkiewicz
Zon Donze
Daan Hogervorst
Rugia Bangura

First- and second-year students of MBO Theaterschool Rotterdam

VU-chorus

Synths, keys, electronics Jarno van Es
E-drums Jonathan Szegedi
Bass gitar / synth bass Kay Hasselbaink
Percussion Ezgi Elkirmiş
Ney Sinan Arat
Kemence Emine Bostanci
Clarinet Georgia Siama
Cello Hadewych van Gent
Gitar Bas Gaakeer

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