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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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AntwerpGrand FinaleWorld premiere

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Shechter: Grand Finale
Hofesh Shechter; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Tom Scutt; Tom Visser; HERMESensemble

AntwerpParsifalNew production

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Wagner: Parsifal
Alejo Pérez; Susanne Kennedy; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Markus Selg; Andra Dumitrascu; Sascha Zauner; Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

AntwerpAperitif concert: French-Russian Romantic

Opera Vlaanderen
Borodin, Franck, Duparc, Chausson

AntwerpChoreolab / What you are about to seeWorld premiere

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Allison McGuire; Charles Antoni; Shane Urton; Louiza Avraam; Ana Maria Lucaciu; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Irina Shaposhnikova; Caroline Mathieu

AntwerpLucia di LammermoorConcert performance

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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Andriy Yurkevych; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Koor Opera Vlaanderen; Vincenzo Neri; Vuvu Mpofu

AntwerpAperitif concert: Serenade for woodwinds

Opera Vlaanderen
Mozart, Gounod, Enescu

AntwerpBarzakh

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Abdulrasol: Barzakh
Zoe Zeniodi; Thomas Bellinck; Zaza Dupont; Rida Habib Allah; Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Bart Van Merode

AntwerpDon Giovanni

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Mozart: Don Giovanni
Francesco Corti; Tom Goossens; Opera Ballet Vlaanderen; Sammy Van den Heuvel; Sophie Klenk-Wulff; Dennis Diels; Symfonisch Orkest Opera Ballet Vlaanderen
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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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Memento Mori: a paradigm shift in filming dance

Dance of a truly gripping and magical quality as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s compellingly beautiful work is translated for the screen. 
*****
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Mob mentality: a powerful La Juive at Opera Vlaanderen

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Peter Konwitschny's production strips away much of the religious symbolism, presenting the difference between Jews and Christians as little more than the dyed colour of their hands. 
****1
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