Name: The Four Note Opera
Start: 2024-03-15T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2024-03-17T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Organization

Admin

Opera Forward Festival

De Nationale Opera

Nederlandse Reisopera

Opera Zuid

Stage director

Kenza Karin Koutchoukali

Set designer

Yannick Verweij

Dramaturge

Wout van Tongeren

Lighting designer

Coen van der Hoeven

Conductor

Alejandro Cantalapiedra

Laura Roling

Soprano

Sophia Hunt

Contralto

Martina Myskohlid

Tenor

Salvador Villanueva

Baritone

Georgiy Derbas-Richter

Bass

Mark Kurmanbayev

Costume designer

Instrumentalist

Daniel Ruiz de Cenzano Caballero

Piano

The Four Note Opera -  (Four Note Opera)

Amsterdam

Netherlands

Dutch National Opera & Ballet

Studio Boekman

The Four Note Opera Johnson

Public

Private

Four Note Opera

Rahul Solomon

Approved

Pianist

Violinist

Cellist

Violist

Flutist

Clarinetist

Guitarist

Organist

Percussionist

hornist

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Bassoonist

Trumpeter

Contrabassist

Trombonist

Harper

Saxophonist

Harpsichordist

Bassist

Accordionist

Tuba Player

Recorder Player

Lutenist

Tenor Violinist

Timpani

Mandoline Player

Baroque Flutist

Baroque Oboist

Baroque Trumpetist

Violino Piccolo Player

Viola da gamba

Musette de cour Player

Viola Pomposa Player

Archlutenist

Vibraphonist

Cornettist

Viola d’amore Player

Theorbist

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Actor

Chorus master

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Sound designer

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Choir

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Poet

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Teacher

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Chorus Director

Wig & Makeup Designer

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Extra

Countertenor

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Bass-baritone

Spoken

Child vocalist

Silent

Alto

Continuo

Dark comedy over zangers die niets te zeggen hebben
I always feel very uncomfortable in the Final Scene.
But what can we do?
That is the way the opera is written.
We have no control over such things.

Geïnspireerd door het meta-theater van Luigi Pirandello schreef componist Tom Johnson een stuk voor een groep zangers die slechts vier noten tot hun beschikking hebben (A, B, D en E) en over niets anders kunnen zingen dan de opera waar ze op dat moment zelf in staan. Natuurlijk is die situatie onhoudbaar: de opera eindigt in totale verstarring.

Vijftig jaar geleden was de Four Note Opera een plagerig commentaar op de conventies van de operawereld. Hoe zit dat vandaag de dag? Is het stuk zelf sleets repertoire geworden, of is de kritiek nog steeds relevant? Want hoeveel controle hebben zangers van nu eigenlijk over de rollen die ze zingen? En hoeveel zeggenschap hebben operamakers over hun eigen creatieproces?

Nederlands

I always feel very uncomfortable in the Final Scene.
But what can we do?
That is the way the opera is written.
We have no control over such things.

Inspired by Luigi Pirandello’s meta-theatre, composer Tom Johnson wrote a piece for a group of singers who have only four notes at their disposal (A, B, D and E) and couldn’t sing about anything other than the opera they are now performing in. Of course, such is an impossible situation: the opera ends in utter rigidity.

English

Four Note Opera by Johnson, sun 17 mar 2024, Frá (2024/2024), Leikstýrt af Kenza Karin Koutchoukali,, Hljómsveitarstjóri Alejandro Cantalapiedra, Dutch National Opera & Ballet, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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