Photos: Koen Broos
Ombra
2024
‘Never was a shade of a tree so lovely...’, it says in Händel’s famous aria ‘Ombra mai fu’. Alain Platel and visual artist Berlinde De Bruyckere take inspiration from the shade of a tree as a meeting place, as a place where people all over the world and throughout history come together to rest, meet or discuss problems. De Bruyckere’s poetic world of images seems to share a kinship with Platel’s universe.
After the overwhelming success of C(H)OEURS 2022, Platel once again invites the chorus members, dancers and orchestral musicians of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen to join a creative dialogue. Together with singer and performer TK Russell and guest choreographers Mélanie Lomoff and Luis Marrafa, they create the performance Ombra. Composer Steven Prengels is developing a new orchestral score in which he interweaves well-known classical masterpieces by the likes of Händel, Bach, Mozart and Beethoven into new layers of meaning.
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m u s i c a l c o n c e p t
a n d c o m p o s i t i o n
Steven Prengels
d i r e c t o r
Alain Platel
c o n d u c t o r
Jan Schweiger, Zachary Zhu
s c e n o g r a p h y
Berlinde De Bruyckere
g u e s t c h o r e o g r a p h e r
Mélanie Lomoff, Luis Marrafa
c o s t u m e d e s i g n
Dotje Demunck
l i g h t i n g d e s i g n
Felice Ross
d r a m a t u r g
Koen Bollen, Hildegard De Vuyst
s o l o i s t
TK Russel
p e r f o r m e d b y
Orchestra, Chorus and Ballet of Opera Ballet Flanders
p r o d u c t i o n
Opera Ballet Flanders