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BETWEEN TWO LIGHTS

Composer

Huang Ruo

Percussion

Gaetan La Mela
Jonas D’Haese
Wim Pelgrims
Eliott Harrison

Choir

Dutch Chamber Choir
conducted by Peter Dijkstra

Staging

Aïda Gabriëls
Tido Visser

Dance

Grace Ellen Barkey

Scenography, Light design

Peter Quasters

Image dramaturgy

Lise Bruyneel

Produced by

Muziektheater Transparant
Dutch Chamber Choir

Co-produced by

O. Festival for Opera.Music.Theatre
DE SINGEL
Concertgebouw Brugge
HERMESensemble
Perpodium

With the support of

Tax Shelter of the Belgian Federal Government

A spiritual journey to the limbus: the distance and time between two lights.

Inspired by the Buddhist Hart Sutra and the Bardo Thödol (better known in the West as The Tibetan Book of the Dead), Huang Ruo’s new composition takes us on the journey of the limbus: the distance and time between two lights, two lives. This experience is described in both books as lonely and empty. A sensation that appears not only in the transitional phase after death, but also during our lives.

Vocalists from the Netherlands Chamber Choir and soloists from HERMESensemble accompany us on the spiritual path between those two worlds, directed by Aïda Gabriëls and Tido Visser.

Within the framework of All Arias Musical Theatre Biennale 2023.

 

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