Next week we will begin the rehearsals for music theater performance L'ALQUIMISTA in Barcelona, at the Teatro Nacional de Catalunya. Michael De Cock created and directs a theatre adaptation of the book The Abyss by Belgian writer Marguerite Yourcenar. Lutenist Jurgen De bruyn joins the stage and, together with composer Alain Franco, provides the soundtrack for the story, which is set in 16th-century Europe with a focus on the last years of the Bruges doctor and alchemist Zeno and on universal themes of humanity and freedom in turbulent times.
The premiere will take place on the 11th of May 2023. The tickets are on sale vie TNC.
De Theaterkrant describes The Mass Man as "intriguing musical meditation on mass, power and manipulation".
The full review is available on the website.
We had the pleasure of showing THE MASS MAN to a sold out audience in Concertgebouw Brugge. Prior to the performance, Muziektheater Transparant director Wouter Van Looy and artistic director of Zefiro Torna Jurgen De bruyn shared their thoughts with the audience. They explained how Nobel Prize winner Elias Canetti and his masterly book on the themes of mass and power, medieval crusader songs and film images by Wim Catrysse form the raw material for a gripping music theatre performance.
Theatre critic Johan Thielemans wrote an engaging review.
The CD TIME CRAWLS is out on the label HOMERECORDS.BE and also available on our webshop (> CD).
Zefiro Torna takes us into a timeless universe with a reinterpretation of the 17th century broken consort music. Melodies intuitively created by flute player Jowan Merckx received a new arrangement for flute, violin, viola da gamba, violone, harp and lute by composers Marnix De Cat and Martin Valcke. The new written music bears traces of baroque and traditional music from all over Europe. The music, which is sometime melancholic, sometimes nimble and festive, fascinates by its ingeniously crafted texture and invites to dance.
This autumn, the alchemistic laboratory BALSAM with Laika, Theatre of the Senses will be on tour again. After two series of performances at the Boulevard Festival in Den Bosch and Cultura Nova in Heerlen in August, the team is ready for it! Prepare yourself for a bewitching ritual in which music, scents and flavours immerse you in the shimmering world of alchemy. Besides the Greenwich+Docks International Festival in London and a tour to Portugal and France, BALSAM also passes by a number of Belgian venues.
--> Take a look in the agenda for all dates
Pantalone – Zefiro Torna – Ros Beiaardcomité
Co-production / Pantalone – Zefiro Torna - Ros Beiaardcomité
In collaboration with Klara and CC Belgica
Exiting music theatre for the whole family
What happens to a man when he is offered a horse making him invincible in battle? What happens when man and horse become best friends? What happens to the world when this war has no ending? What happens when the man falls in love with a woman desiring peace? What happens when de king decides the horse must die for peace’s sake?
Te Ros! is a family performance in which the legend of the the Four Sons of Duke Aymon and the horse Bayard is brought to life in a subtle play of music, video and tough knight's tales. A boys band composed of wizard Madelgijs and three play men start a journey. Armed with nothing but a range of stories, enthralling troubadour and trouveur songs and disarming caprices, they head out looking for feats of arms and the innermost sentiments of Renaud and his horse.
As a part of the Ros Beiaard Parade of Sunday 10 May 2010.
Jurgen De bruyn, lute, electric guitar, chant - Jowan Merckx, flute, bagpipes, flugelhorn - Stephan Pougin, percussion - Tom Hannes, narrator, chant - Els Van Laethem/Liam Fennelly - chant/fiddle on tape I Liesbet Vereertbrugghen, concept and advice - Daniel Tanson, director - Jan Boon, videast - Tom Hannes, scritp - Jef Loots, lights, mise en scène I Tom Hannes, Prof. Frank Willaert (UA), Irene Spijker, research
CC Strombeek (schoolvoorstelling), Strombeek, Cultuurcentrum
Jeugd & Muziek (schoolvoorstelling), Stadsschouwburg Mechelen