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Requiem pour L.

Alain Platel & Fabrizio Cassol

Dates

Prices

4 — 28 €

Location

Onassis Stegi

Time & Date

Day
Time
Venue
Day
Thursday-Sunday
Time
20:30
Venue
Main Stage

Information

Tickets

Early Bird from 12 FEB to 12 MAR 2018: 13, 20 €
(limited number of tickets)

Onassis Stegi's Friends & General Presale: from 12 MAR 2018, 12:00
Full price: 5, 7, 15, 18, 28 €
Reduced, Onassis Stegi's Friends & Groups 5-9 people: 5, 12, 14, 22 €
Groups 10+ people: 4, 11, 13, 20 €
Νeighborhood residents: 7 €
People with disabilities & Unemployed: 5 € | Companions: 10 €

Group ticket reservations at groupsales@onassis.org

Can Mozart's "Requiem" serve as the stimulus for a surprising encounter between music and dance? If it’s Alain Platel, Fabrizio Casso and the Belgian C de la B collective who are managing the encounter, of course it can!

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The “Requiem” confirms something we already knew about the Belgian collective, and does so in the best possible way: les Ballets C de la B have placed multiculturalism at the epicentre of every new work they have ever created. Mozart's emblematic swan song provides the perfect condition for an unprecedented fusing of musical traditions from lands across Europe and Africa. The orchestrators of this undertaking are none other than Alain Platel and Fabrizio Cassol, the artistic duo behind so many new and provocative readings of masterpieces from the Western classical canon. Whether it's Bach and Monteverdi or, as in this case, Mozart, the goal is always the same: to reintroduce music into our lives, to make us communicants of an experience which transcends the bounds of genre and opens itself up to a mosaic of hitherto unheard sounds.

Jazz inflections and operatic arias, traditional musical idioms from Africa and, of course, Cassol's own harmonic experimentations, give the “Requiem” an entirely new on-stage dimension. Platel stage directs the fourteen musicians—some of whom were also involved in their previous production, "Coup Fatal"—, attempting what might be termed an unorthodox polyphony. A musical ensemble of the diaspora whose physical and musical dimensions are not kept separate, but allowed to merge into something larger which highlights in practice the universality of Mozart's work.

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Credits

  • Music

    Fabrizio Cassol after Mozart’s Requiem

  • Direction

    Alain Platel

  • Conductor

    Rodriguez Vangama

  • With and by

    Rodriguez Vangama (guitar and electric bass), Boule Mpanya, Fredy Massamba, Russell Tshiebua (vocals), Nobulumko Mngxekeza, Owen Metsileng, Stephen Diaz/Rodrigo Ferreira (lyric vocals), Joao Barradas (accordion), Kojack Kossakamvwe (electric guitar), Niels Van Heertum (euphonium), Bouton Kalanda, Erick Ngoya, Silva Makengo (likembe), Michel Seba (percussions)

  • Dramaturgy

    Hildegard De Vuyst

  • Musical assistant

    Maribeth Diggle

  • Choreographic assistant

    Quan Bui Ngoc

  • Video

    Simon Van Rompay

  • Camera

    Natan Rosseel

  • Set design

    Alain Platel

  • Set realized by

    Wim Van de Cappelle in collaboration with scenography atelier NTGent

  • Light design

    Carlo Bourguignon

  • Sound design

    Bartold Uyttersprot, Carlo Thompson

  • Costume design

    Dorine Demuynck

  • Stage manager

    Wim Van de Cappelle

  • Photography

    Chris Van der Burght

  • Production managers

    Katrien Van Gysegem, Valerie Desmet

  • Direction assistant and tour manager

    Steve De Schepper

  • Trainee performing arts

    Lisaboa Houbrechts

  • Trainee theatre engineering

    Ijf Boullet

  • Thanks to

    Isnelle da Silveira, Filip De Boeck, Barbara Raes, Griet Callewaert, atelier NTGent, Mevrouw S.P., Juffrouw A.C., Fondation Camargo (Cassis, France), Sylvain Cambreling

  • We are sincerely grateful to

    L. and her family for their exceptional candour, their deep trust and the unique support to this special project.

In dialogue with dr. Marc Cosyns

  • Production

    les ballets C de la B, Festival de Marseille, Berliner Festspiele

  • Coproduction

    Opéra de Lille (FR), Théâtre National de Chaillot Paris (FR), Les Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg (LU), Onassis Cultural Centre Athens (GR), TorinoDanza (IT), Aperto Festival/Fondazione I Teatri – Reggio Emilia (IT), Kampnagel Hamburg (DE), Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele (DE), Festspielhaus St. Pölten (AT), L’Arsenal Metz (FR), Scène Nationale du Sud-Aquitain – Bayonne (FR), La Ville de Marseille (FR)

  • Distribution

    Frans Brood Productions

  • Les ballets C de la B is supported by

    The Flemish authorities, City of Ghent, Province East Flan- ders, North Sea Port and the Belgian Taxshelter

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