Stream Between Two Lights via OperaVision as part of Opera Europa NEXT GENERATION
From 26/09/2025 to 26/03/2026
A concert-like soundscape exploring death, emptiness, and the life in between. Huang Ruo builds musical bridges between Asia and the West. Stream it now!
What happens between a life that ends and whatever comes after? Is there an in-between space – a moment when we are no longer who we were, but not yet who we will become?
Between Two Lights is neither narrative music theatre nor a traditional concert. It is a physical listening experience – a journey to the edge of existence and back. Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo rooted this work in the Heart Sutra, a Buddhist text where emptiness and form dissolve into one another. Not abstract mysticism, but a guide to what touches us all: the elusive moment between farewell and beginning.
Do we dare to face the moment when everything falls silent? The not-knowing. The emptiness. That which binds us all, but is rarely spoken of.
Credits
Concept | Composition | Libretto | Conductor • Huang Ruo
Choir • Nederlands Kamerkoor
Percussion • HERMESensemble
Performer • Grace Ellen Barkey
Staging • Aïda Gabriëls / Tido Visser
Assistant Director • Matteo Carazza
Lighting Design • Peter Quasters
Live Video • Lise Bruyneel
Interview Videography • Mirjam Devriendt
Artistic Advice for Interviews • Barbara Raes
Dramaturgical Advice • Shuang Zou
