This year’s Holland Festival puts special focus on the multi-talented Dutch composer, conductor and poet Micha Hamel. Hamel has composed two new works which will both premiere at the festival: Requiem and The Red Kimono. At the heart of Requiem is a song cycle for tenor and piano, complemented by an ensemble of ten musicians and Dutch actor Porgy Franssen. Instead of the traditional Latin requiem texts, Hamel uses a diverse collection of the last words of famous people, from Keats to Corot and from Schubert to Marx, to express our mortality. Hamel’s Requiem is a mix of concert, ritual and theatre, specifically created for a performance in the monumental Amsterdam church De Duif.
dates
Tue June 5 2012 11:00 PM
Wed June 6 2012 11:00 PM
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