November 2020
Le nozze di Figaro
YOU CAN ENJOY LE NOZZE DI FIGARO FROM SUNDAY 29 NOVEMBER UNTIL SUNDAY 27 DECEMBER 23.59 HRS ONLINE. YOU CAN WATCH THE PERFORMANCE HERE DUE TO TIGHTENED CORONA MEASURES, WE ARE UNFORTUNATELY FORCED TO CANCEL ALL PERFORMANCES OF LE NOZZE DI FIGARO. READ MORE INFORMATION HERE: OPERABALLET.NL/CORONA-UPDATE
Duration: 2:00
BACK TO BALLET - classic
In these turbulent times, Back to Ballet - classic takes you back to the core of classical ballet. Our soloists shine with heartwarming roles in timeless and moving ballets like Le Corsaire, Swan Lake and Paquita. After a few sold out performances for a limited audience, we bring Back to Ballet - classic back for 4 more evenings, live in your living room and with a different cast of soloists every evening. Tune in to one of the livestreams on 28 November or 4, 9 or 12 December and enjoy this unique performance safely at home!
Duration: 01:27
Figaro (solo): Bring Me a Storm
Figaro (solo): Bring me a Storm is an online opera that serves as a counterpart to Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro. Starting point is Figaro's explosive monologue from Pierre Beaumarchais' original play Le mariage de Figaro. Mozart and his librettist Da Ponte left the text, which brims with revolutionary spirit, out of their opera adaptation. Now the scene finally makes it to the operatic stage in the vision of a new generation of music theatre makers. See also the online performance Le nozze di Figaro, an abridged version of Mozart's comic opera: Le nozze di Figaro - online
December 2020
BACK TO BALLET - classic
In these turbulent times, Back to Ballet - classic takes you back to the core of classical ballet. Our soloists shine with heartwarming roles in timeless and moving ballets like Le Corsaire, Swan Lake and Paquita. After a few sold out performances for a limited audience, we bring Back to Ballet - classic back for 4 more evenings, live in your living room and with a different cast of soloists every evening. Tune in to one of the livestreams on 28 November or 4, 9 or 12 December and enjoy this unique performance safely at home!
Duration: 01:27
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
DUE TO CORONA MEASURES, WE ARE FORCED TO CANCEL ALL PERFORMANCES OF THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING. READ MORE HERE: OPERABALLET.NL/CORONA-UPDATE ON 19 DECEMBER, DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET WILL ORGANISE A UNIQUE ONLINE CHRISTMAS GALA. BUY YOUR TICKET FOR THE LIVE STREAM HERE
Duration: 2:20
CHRISTMAS GALA
December is traditionally the month of ballet. In no other month so many people, all over the world, visit a ballet performance. This year everything is different, but we still want to celebrate the holidays together with you. Right now we need art and the opportunity to immerse ourselves in a magical world more than ever. That's why Dutch National Ballet is organising an exuberant, festive Christmas Gala. Enjoy this exclusive night full of famous pas de deux and new works live online with the whole family and let yourself be enchanted by an abundance of Broadway glamour and wintery snowflakes.
Duration: Approximately 120 minutes
Voices out of Silence
The Chorus of Dutch National Opera and its future chief conductor Lorenzo Viotti break the silence of the second lockdown with an atmospheric musical programme. Together they explore the meaning of silence, stillness and the sheer power of the human voice. A cappella, without instrumental accompaniment, the chorus performs a varied repertoire stretching from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Online premiere on 20 December 2020.
Duration: 1:00
Goud!
Goud! will premiere in December! A percussionist and a singer play and sing the story of a magical wish-fish that can make all your wishes come true. Goud! is infectious music theater for our younger audiences about wishing for lots, getting it all, and it still not being enough.
Duration: 00:45January 2021
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
DUE TO CORONA MEASURES, WE ARE FORCED TO CANCEL ALL PERFORMANCES OF THE NUTCRACKER AND THE MOUSE KING. READ MORE HERE: OPERABALLET.NL/CORONA-UPDATE ON 19 DECEMBER, DUTCH NATIONAL BALLET WILL ORGANISE A UNIQUE ONLINE CHRISTMAS GALA. BUY YOUR TICKET FOR THE LIVE STREAM HERE
Duration: 2:20Goud!
Goud! will premiere in December! A percussionist and a singer play and sing the story of a magical wish-fish that can make all your wishes come true. Goud! is infectious music theater for our younger audiences about wishing for lots, getting it all, and it still not being enough.
Duration: 00:45
February 2021
Der fliegende Holländer
In Wagner’s romantic opera Der fliegende Holländer, both the ghostly seaman – the ‘Dutchman’ – and the captain’s daughter Senta yearn desperately for redemption. The one is doomed to spend eternity sailing a ghost ship, the other is trapped in a stifling world where she does not belong.
Duration: 2:15
March 2021
Oedipus Rex / From ‘Antigone’
Ballet and opera together in a world premiere Opera and ballet join forces for this new production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. In this unique artistic collaboration, the British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor bridges the world of classical tragedy with the language of contemporary ballet and 20th- and 21st-century music. Composer Samy Moussa wrote a penetrating and poignant response to Stravinsky’s masterpiece.
Oedipus Rex / From ‘Antigone’
Ballet and opera together in a world premiere Opera and ballet join forces for this new production of Stravinsky’s Oedipus Rex. In this unique artistic collaboration, the British choreographer and director Wayne McGregor bridges the world of classical tragedy with the language of contemporary ballet and 20th- and 21st-century music. Composer Samy Moussa wrote a penetrating and poignant response to Stravinsky’s masterpiece.
Upload
Eternal life. It’s possible. As an upload, a digital version of ourselves. It might sound like science fiction. But developments in this area are racing ahead at warp speed. Upload investigates what this means for our ‘humanness’, our identity, and our relationship with others.
Duration: 1:20April 2021
May 2021
Anna Bolena
‘Success, Trumph, Delirium!’ – the audience practically raised the roof at the premiere of Anna Bolena in 1830. With his melodious music, Donizetti transposed a historical situation into a world of intense emotion. He still manages to touch listeners as no other.
Duration: 3:30June 2021
The Dutch School
The Dutch School offers a perfect sampler of the best that Dutch dance has achieved: dance that puts simplicity, clarity, musicality and the expressive qualities of the individual dancer at the forefront. It invites you to experience an incredibly wide range of vibes and emotions. In The Dutch School, you will meet choreographers who made an important contribution to Dutch National Ballet: master choreographer Hans van Manen, associate artist David Dawson and three young choreographers, Wubkje Kuindersma, Remi Wortmeyer and Ernst Meisner, who are creating together a world premiere for The Dutch School.
