Zefiro Torna announces a new spring with groundbreaking multidisciplinary creations, international collaborations and timeless music that touches body and mind. Download our brochure, full of inspiration for your cultural season 2020-21
This fall, in addition to a few concerts, Zefiro Torna is preparing a number of (inter)national productions that will premiere in spring 2020.
We are especially looking forward to work with the theater company Laika. Together we'll transform the Balsam program into a mysterious alchemical lab where the public is served elixirs, ointments, syrups, all while the music enchants.
In addition, we will bring a few noon concerts at Opera Vlaanderen with the Champions des Dames program.
We'll also celebrate Beethoven 2020 with the hybrid concert installation PASTORALE, in which the music helps shape an ecology of microscopic life forms.
Zefiro Torna – ARSENAAL/LAZARUS
For centuries jurisdiction divides what is right from what is wrong. Laws are made to maintain order, and those who seek for chaos will have to appear in front of the blindfolded Lady Justice. We identify her verdict with fairness. The law is the law: it has no feelings. But the contrary is true for justice: it is permeated by emotions. JUST= illustrates this tension in seven scenes. The main characters voor every scene are: religion, power, morality, politics, outcasts, time and the arts. A clash of disciplines will guide you, from elderly people to rappers, from Händel to a silent movie to... And you, dear visitor, will be both witness and cause from all harm.
Willy Thomas, Jurgen De bruyn concept
Sarah Eisa, LAZARUS, Freek Mariën, Tom Lanoye text
Willy Thomas, Jurgen De bruyn, Ruud Gielens staging
Günther Lesage, Pieter Genard, Joris Van Den Brande, Koen De Graeve, Ryszek Turbiasz, Willy Thomas, Charlotte Vandermeersch performance
Charlotte Vandermeersch, Eurudike De Beul, Jonathan De Ceuster, Viermaliks, kinderkoor etc. vocals
Martin Valcke, Händel, Hanns Eisler, etc. music
Ensemble Zefiro Torna o.l.v. Jurgen De bruyn: Annelies Decock, Marrie Mooij, Thomas Luks, Dimos de Beun, Jurgen De bruyn, beiaardiers, Stedelijk Conservatorium Mechelen, Gökhan Girginol, Serdi Faki, etc. music performance
Mathias Ruelle film
Karen De Wolf costumes
Sarah Eisa dramaturgy
ARSENAAL/LAZARUS, Cultuurcentrum Mechelen technical support
commissioned by OP.RECHT.MECHELEN stadsfestival 2016-2018
De Standaard 12.12.2016
Het Laatste Nieuws 19.05.2017
Gazet Van Antwerpen 20.05.2017
De Standaard 22.05.2017
Gazet van Antwerpen 22.05.2017
De Morgen, recensie 25.05.2017