This article explores the latest mise en scène of "Gysbreght van Aemstel" by Joost van den Vondel staged by Het Toneel Speelt at the Stadsschouwburg of Amsterdam on New Year’s Day 2012. It discusses the three new choir poems composed by Willem Jan Otten specifically for this event and the acting technique used to perform them. Through a short analysis of the historical and theatrical contexts of the tragedy and of the spectacular issues that allowed its long-lasting staging fortune, the article aims at demonstrating that the representability of Gysbreght van Amstel on contemporary stages does not depend only on the play's aesthetic beauty, but also on its potentiality to respond to the religious, emotional and cultural needs of our present ...
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The aim of the article is to explore the latest performance trends in the creation of the operatic w...
Many viewers have contemplated over the mysterious curtains held up by two prophets on either side o...
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Applied to literary texts, the notion of performance is often reserved for forms of oral presentatio...
Joost van den Vondel’s tragedy Mary Stuart, or Martyred Majesty (1646), written after the playwright...
This chapter aims to define opera criticism in the context of the modern operatic practice, characte...
How an operatic work is produced on the stage provides a crucial element in our understanding and as...
The present thesis offers a critical reconsideration of the tragedy Gysbreght van Aemstel (1637) of ...
In this article I interpret Vondel's "Gysbreght van Aemstel" as a subtle attempt to rewrite, or rath...
Analisi dell'opera poetica di Willem Jan Otten e dei cori da lui composti nel 2011 per l'allestiment...
In una notte di Natale intorno al 1300, Amsterdam viene conquistata con l’inganno. Dopo un lungo ass...
Il teatro neerlandese del Secolo d’Oro si presenta come un laboratorio di riflessione su temi e ques...
This article explores the dynamics of sacrality in contemporary culture through the performance of L...
Many viewers have contemplated over the mysterious curtains held up by two prophets on either side o...
The aim of the article is to explore the latest performance trends in the creation of the operatic w...
Many viewers have contemplated over the mysterious curtains held up by two prophets on either side o...
In this article, the two parallel adaptations in Dutch of Calderón’s El mayor encanto, amor are disc...
This chapter examines two different approaches to the staging of Wagner in recent productions by Cas...
Applied to literary texts, the notion of performance is often reserved for forms of oral presentatio...
Joost van den Vondel’s tragedy Mary Stuart, or Martyred Majesty (1646), written after the playwright...
This chapter aims to define opera criticism in the context of the modern operatic practice, characte...
How an operatic work is produced on the stage provides a crucial element in our understanding and as...