Kruistocht. (family opera in 16 scenes)

Coproduction of Opera Ballet Vlaanderen and Kopergietery Gent

With
-Children's Choir Opera Ballet Vlaanderen (conductor: Hendrik Derolez):
Maxim, Annabelle, Jamila, Omar, Paul, Diogo Lowie, Hannah, Lucija,Milla, Li-Wei, Antoni, Lisa, Lorenz Ludovic, Astrid, Oliwier, Maia, Paloma, Grey, Axelle, Lars, Wilhem, Mathis, Amelie, Baruck, Isabella, Miel, Elise-Marie, Vladimir en Annika.
-Children Kopergietery:
Aiko, Cecilia, Sirkenan, Staf, Rosie, Renée, Ayame, Klaas, Otis, Renier, Meena, Siska, Ysabel en Billie.
-Marjan De Schutter, Laurence Servaes, Elisa Soster, Alloul Jaouad, Lennert Coorevits, Janus Coorevits
-Alice Van Leuven (violin), Sara Salvérius (accordion), Pablo Aranda ((bass)clarinet)
-orkest: Symphonic Orchestra Opera Ballet Vlaanderen

Team
-Director/Concept/Text: Johan De Smet
-Musical director: Michiel Delanghe
-Assistent director: Dominique Collet
-Scenography: Giovani Vanhoenacker
-Costume designer: Ilse Vandenbussche
-Video: Kenneth Michiels
-Light Designer: Bart Van Merode
-Dramaturgy: Matthias Velle, Piet De Volder

Live Recording (02/05/2023) by Klara at Opera Gent

Kruistocht. Scene 2 Gestrand (Fragment)

Kruistocht. Scene 1 De Sprong

Rhapsody (2022)
Music theatre for narrator and ensemble ((b)cl, trb, perc, vln, vlc)

Production: LOD
Concept & performance: Josse De Pauw 
excerpts from the interviews with Jane Goodall, George Steiner, John M. Coetzee, Karel Appel, Edward Witten from "Van de schoonheid en de troost" by Wim Kayzer 

Recording by Brecht Beuselinck

musical execution: Asko|Schönberg 
clarinet & bass clarinet: Anna voor de Wind 
trombone: Koen Kaptijn 
percussion: Joey Marijs 
violin: Jellantsje de Vries
cello: Sebastiaan van Halsema 

scenography: Anne Marcq with images from the LOMO archive by Max Pinckers 
light design: Luc Schaltin 
light: Pino Etz  
sound: Brecht Beuselinck 
video design: Wim Piqueur   
production manager: Liesbet Termont 

production: LOD muziektheater 
coproduction: Asko|Schönberg, Klarafestival / KVS, Concertgebouw Brugge, Le Manège Maubeuge 

with thanks to Jannes Dierynck, Victor Hidalgo, Bart Mommerency, the theater studio of The National Theater and the painting studios of De Munt / La Monnaie, Brussels with the support of the tax shelter measure by the Belgian federal government tax shelter partner Flanders Tax Shelter

pic by Kurt van der Elst

Rhapsody - Witten

Rhapsody - Appel

Rhapsody - Steiner

Rhapsody - Chaconne

Rhapsody - Coetzee

Rhapsody - Goodall

Written in 2016, for prepared piano; in two parts.

After a tiny musical gesture that is haunting me since 2005: it jumped last year in another piece, and here we are again! In a way, I pick up right where I had left off.

Of all instruments! is dealing with a. "heterophony" (the manner of various voices saying essentially the same thing but not quite, which attracts me truly) and b. the concept of the "continuum", whether that means transition through repetition or revolving round a single note...

Katerina Konstantourou (for whom I wrote it) at the piano.
Goethe-Institut, Athens, December 19th 2017.

...of all instruments!

How shall I put it?

With an affirmation?
I can only write the music I want to write.
Or with a negation?
Nothing's forbidden as soon as I make head or tail of it.

Listen carefully!
nikosioakeim@gmail.com

(Linocut: Lidwien Dister © 2010)

...of all instruments!

nikos ioakeim

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