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Venue: Opera Vlaanderen, Antwerp

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AddressFrankrijklei 3
2000 Antwerp
Belgium
Google maps51° 13' 7.557" N 4° 24' 57.985" E
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AntwerpNabucco

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Verdi: Nabucco
Gaetano Lo Coco; Christiane Jatahy; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Thomas Walgrave; An D'Huys; Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

AntwerpAperitif concert: Liebesliederwalzer

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Brahms, Schubert

AntwerpAperitif concert: Mendelssohn's Octet

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
Mendelssohn, Weber

AntwerpSancta

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Hindemith: Sancta Susanna
Marit Strindlund; Florentina Holzinger; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Nikola Knezevic; Max Kraußmüller; Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

AntwerpOpus

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Bach: Opus
Christos Papadopoulos; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Stephanos Droussiotis; Georgios Kotsifakis

AntwerpCarmen

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Bizet: Carmen
Keren Kagarlitsky; Wim Vandekeybus; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Sylvie Olivé; Isabelle Lhoas; Nicolas Olivier; Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

AntwerpLove & Loss

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Bach, Bryars
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker; William Forsythe; Dana Caspersen; Stephen Galloway; Jacopo Godani; Thomas McManus; Jone San Martin; David Raymond; Tiffany Tregarthen; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Julien Monty; Stefanie Arndt; An D'Huys; James Proudfoot
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Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s Parsifal: digital drama, celestial singing

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Digital projections make Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s Parsifal seem alienating and strange, but the singing is terrific and the orchestra sounds sensational.
***11
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A powerhouse: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Shechter’s Grand Finale

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Opera Ballet Vlaanderen powers its way through an exciting revamp of Hofesh Shechter’s inimitable Grand Finale.
****1
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Marcos Morau’s Romeo + Juliet: lessons in volatility

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An unconventional dance take on Prokofiev's ubiquitous ballet for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in Antwerp is not for the faint-hearted.

***11
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Grotesque and gripping: Opera Ballet Vlaanderen unveils a new Salome

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Not a great day for the patriarchy: Ersan Mondtag's gripping new Salome emphasises grotesque caricatures and ends with a bloody, plot-twisting coup d’état
****1
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Power to the people! A revolutionary Clemenza di Tito

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Revolution is not for the fainthearted in Milo Rau’s decolonized production of Mozart's opera seria for Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. 
****1
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Royal Ballet Flanders: it's either bemusing or brilliant!

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Three linked works of contemporary ballet provoke a very mixed response.

***11
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Dido and Aeneas reworked as performance art

Though ambitious and occasionally arresting, this revised and expanded take on the Purcell classic suffers from subtraction by addition.
**111
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Debussy rebuild fails the House of Usher

The question isn’t if Van Parys and Schoeters did right by Poe so much as if they did right by Debussy. Poe will prevail. Debussy’s opera remains unfinished. 

*1111
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