Budapest Festival: Muziektheater Transparant

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At the Budapest Festival this autumn, the Flemish Muziektheater Transparant performs a moving work that seeks points of connection between music and drama.

This 2007 production "Ruhe" is based on real events and interviews conducted with average people who voluntarily became Nazis in Holland in the 1940s. We hear the parallel monologues of a man and a woman, their stories punctuated with Schubert songs performed by the Collegium Vocale Gent. At the end of the piece we hear not Schubert, but a work by Annelies Van Parys, a contemporary Flemish composer: the dissonant chords place the continuously repeated word “Ruhe” [rest] in the same strange light as that cast by the Schubert songs on the happenings in Holland in the 1940s.

Savour the graceful balance of music and theatre in this unusual work in Budapest this fall.

 

Josse De Pauw
, director


Carly Wijs, Tom Jansen, performers

Armando, Hans Sleutelaar, 

text

Tom Jansen, Josse De Pauw, stage adaptation

Herman Sorgeloos
, sets & lighting