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Gerard von Brucken Fock (Composer of the Month November 2017)
Gerard von Brucken Fock was one of the most remarkable Dutch composers of all. He was financially independent yet tried to give away his fortune, he attempted divorce his wife to preserve their love and travelled through Europe for the Salvation Army, playing salvation songs on a barrel organ. His master piece is the as yet unperfomred opera Jozal from 1912. On Saturday November 18 highlights of Jozal will be performed by Heldentenor Hendrik Vonk, soprano Barbara Schilstra, baritone Frits Muusse and pianist Wolter Willemsen. Location: Oude Kerk (Old Church), Keizerstraat 8, Scheveningen (Netherlands). Begins at 3 PM. Free entrance (voluntary contribution).
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Caroline Ansink
Caroline Ansink
a biography of the composer of Stuyvesant Zero can be found here.
NOW ONLINE: exclusive interview with Caroline Ansink, with unique sound & video fragments of her music.
FALSTAFF RIVISTO
Opera Spanga and the Rosa ensemble give Verdi's opera a short hunderd and thirty years later a complete update: Falstaff becomes Falstaff Rivisto. Rosa's composers 'decomposed' Verdi's masterpiece. Acoustic sounds are mixed with electronics, The opera in set against a stage of four centuries of art history.
401Concerts 4 (Composers v/d Maand)
18 December 2016, 401Concerts 4 live from the OBA Concert Hall The Hague, with opera arias & duets from the archives of the Nederlands Muziek Instituut. Soprano Barbara Schilstra, tenor Hendrik Vonk, bass-baritone Andreas Goetze and the 401DutchOpera Choir under Frits Muusse and pianist Wolter Willemsen shall perform arias and duets from Cornelis Dopper's De blinde van Casteel Cuillé (1894), Willem Landré's De roos van Dekama (1896), Daniël de Lange's Lioba (1906), Jan van Gilse’s Helga von Stavern (1911), Gerard von Brucken Fock's Jozal (1912), Emile von Brucken-Focks Seleneia (1914), Julius Röntgen's De lachende Cavalier (1918), Jan Brandts Buys’ Die Schneider von Schönau (1916) and Richard Hageman's Caponsacchi (1932). A unique programme with modern day creations. Caponsacchi is the only Dutch opera ever performed at the Metropolitan Opera New York. Lioba is on text by the celebrated Dutch author Frederik van Eeden, De roos van Dekama is after Jacob van Lennep. Röntgen and Dopper are composers known from the golden balustrade of the Concertgebouw. The Helga von Stavern and Jozal duets are absolute world premières! Downloadable from december 20.
