Name: Dr Miracle's Last Illusion
Start: 2016-09-05T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2017-04-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Koninklijke Schouwburg

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Organization

Singer

Woedy Woet

Dr Miracle

Soprano

Lucie Chartin

soprano

Kristina Bitenc

Martina Prins

Conductor

Hernán Schvartzman

Stage director

Serge van Veggel

Set designer

Herbert Janse

Costume designer

Mirjam Pater

Lighting designer

Uri Rapaport

Choreographer

Thom Stuart

Sound designer

Arne Bock

Tom Jansen

Voice Dr. Miracle

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Dr Miracle's Last Illusion

Groningen

Netherlands

Stadsschouwburg

Nijmegen

Stadsschouwburg Nijmegen

Assen

De Nieuwe Kolk

Drachten

Schouwburg De Lawei

Tilburg

Theaters Tilburg

Enschede

Wilminktheater

Emmen

ATLAS Theater

Amsterdam

Koninklijk Theater Carré

Amersfoort

Flint

's-Hertogenbosch

Theater aan de Parade

De Meervaart

Utrecht

Gouda

Schouwburg

Rijswijk

Rijswijkse Schouwburg

Deventer

Eindhoven

Parktheater

Alkmaar

Theater de Vest

Zwolle

Theater De Spiegel

Arnhem

Musis & Stadstheater Arnhem

Maastricht

Theater aan het Vrijthof

Schiedam

Theater aan de Schie

The Hague

Koninklijke Schouwburg

Dr Miracle's Last Illusion Various

Public

Approved

Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

The production was inspired by illusionism, a literally magic genre. We returned to the period around 1900, when life was brightened by sparkling variety shows as well as a fascination for what could lie beyond the boundary between life and death. The performance was co-produced with the New European Ensemble, De Dutch Don't Dance Division and the Royal Theatre of The Hague.

In the opera, we follow the elusive illusionist Dr. Miracle. In his travelling theatre he enthrals the audience with seemingly airy variety acts. He challenges gravity and other laws of nature. During one of the shows his assistant loses her life as a result of a tragic accident. Dr. Miracle gets intoxicated with the beauty of her transition to the eternal light. He is overcome by an overwhelming desire to relive this experience. In his quest he continually changes his appearance and gets mixed up with a mysterious world filled with sleep-walkers, lunatics and lost souls. Are we looking at light illusions? Or are we watching a detailed account of a series of ghastly murders?
Dr. Miracle's Last Illusion was both a flamboyant and melancholic performance: full of suspense, but not lacking in humour or horror. The story was brought to life with enchanting scenes from operas and ballets by Bellini, Offenbach, Verdi, Wagner and Stravinsky. The show also pays tribute to the magic genres of opera and dance with their many often insane heroines. These muses - and victims - of Dr. Miracle are sung by the three vocal top-talents Martina Prins, Kristina Bitenc and Lucie Chartin and danced by Violet Broersma from De Dutch Don't Dance Division. Woedy Woet, multiple Dutch champion magician, plays the part of Dr. Miracle. Concept and production originate from OPERA2DAY's artistic leader Serge van Veggel.

English

Dr Miracle's Last Illusion by Various, Wed 12 Apr 2017, From (2016/2017), Directed by Serge van Veggel,, Conductor Hernán Schvartzman, Koninklijke Schouwburg, The Hague, Netherlands

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