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• Volunteers Hospitality

  7 July 202415:07 Comments Off on Volunteers Hospitality

  Opera Zuid is a leading BIS opera facility in, for and from the south of the Netherlands and makes accessible, surprising and contemporary opera. Passion, fantasy, innovation and authenticity are central to this. Opera Zuid brings opera close by: opera that you feel, touch, amaze and transport. Tradition and innovation go hand in hand, great masterpieces from the past touch the core of our here and now. We believe that the total experience that opera offers can change your life. Based on this conviction, Opera Zuid wants to share its productions with as large and diverse an audience as possible.

  Opera Zuid makes two major theater tours through the Netherlands every year. For these tours, Opera Zuid is looking for volunteer hospitality for our audience in the theaters.

  Job description

  As a hospitality volunteer, you are responsible for welcoming our visitors to the theaters during our theater tours through the Netherlands. You are the contact for theater visitors at an information desk of Opera Zuid before, during the intermission and after the performance. You also help with the distribution of flyers and program booklets before or after the performances.

  We are looking for people who

  Are hospitable and representative
  Have excellent communication and social skills
  Are willing to work irregular hours, evenings and weekends
  Have an affinity with opera and theatre

  
  What do we offer

  You get an insight into the organization of an opera performance and you are part of the team. A pleasant and inspiring working environment. Attend opera performances for free. Volunteer fee.

  Respond

  If you are interested, send your response, including motivation and CV, to vacancies@operazuid.nl for the attention of Fanny Bartels, Marketing & Communications coordinator.

• Want to work at Opera Zuid?

  6 June 202410:47 Comments Off on Want to work at Opera Zuid?

  Open applications can be sent to vacatures@operazuid.nl.

• Want to do an internship at Opera Zuid?

  2 February 202410:46 Comments Off on Want to do an internship at Opera Zuid?

  Opera Zuid offers students the opportunity to gain practical work experience.

  Applications for internships can be sent to the management or relevant department.

• Orphée aux Enfers canceled during Opera op de Parade

  29 June 202317:38 Comments Off on Orphée aux Enfers canceled during Opera op de Parade

  With a lot of pain in our hearts we have to inform you that the last performance of Orphée aux Enfers tonight during Opera op de Parade in ‘s-Hertogenbosch is canceled due to bad weather conditions. Unfortunately, this brings our tour to an early end. From this place we would like to thank everyone who intended to come and see this beautiful spectacle for the last time. We hope to welcome you again soon.

• Orphée | L’Amour | Eurydice on tour!

  10 February 202214:57 Comments Off on Orphée | L’Amour | Eurydice on tour!

  What does love look like today? Inspired by Christoph Willibald Gluck’s opera Orphée et Eurydice, opera maker Robin Coops and VR pioneer Avinash Changa investigate in a three-part opera experience.

  In this version of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice are not separated by death, but by a fate that affects many present-day relationships: the lovers have lost each other. They no longer communicate directly with each other, only via text message with L’Amour, the personification of love, who also no longer knows how to properly fulfill their role as mediator.

  Orphée | L’Amour | Eurydice is a collaboration project between the Nederlandse Reisopera, Dutch National Opera and Opera Zuid in the field of talent development, in co-production with WeMakeVR and M31 Foundation.

  INFO & TICKETS: operazuid.nl/o-a-e

• Tenor Rafael Rojas passed away

  21 January 202213:19 Comments Off on Tenor Rafael Rojas passed away

  The sad news reached us that Tenor Rafael Rojas has passed away at the age of 59. Rojas, born in Mexico, sang the role of Dick Johnson/Ramerrez in Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West with Opera Zuid in 2001. We wish his loved ones a lot of strength with this loss.

• Interview with director Julien Chavaz

  13:12 Comments Off on Interview with director Julien Chavaz

  Roméo et Juliette is a love story between two people from rival families. Director Julien Chavaz turned the opera into a contemporary love story. A story of today! “In my production I play with the question of what you can and cannot show in public.”

  How do you bring this time-honored love story to the present day?

  “In my experience, Romeo et Juliette is about the constant field of tension between public and private. In directing we play with these different perspectives. One moment you are witnessing everything from the two families, who are fighting each other in public. Then to switch to the intimate perspective of Roméo and Juliette, who meet in secret. The decor is also based on this change of perspective. It’s like looking out the window one minute and surveying the entire city and peeking through a keyhole the next.”

  How does this compare to our time where social media makes just about everything public?

  ‘In the piece I reflect on the question of what you can and cannot show in public. We are used to everyone displaying their entire life on Instagram and Facebook. I occasionally drop a curtain on stage, behind which characters disappear. The audience hears that something is happening, but is not part of it. That arouses curiosity.”

  As a director you are known for giving rhythm to an opera. How do you do that in this opera?

  First of all, the rhythm must be in balance between the large choral scenes and the intimate solo singing, but also between the musical transitions between the scenes. I use these musical transitions without vocals to tell more than is written on paper. I show the story from a different perspective and have characters come back to create magic and mystery. The audience gets to know the characters in a more intimate way than is possible in the action-oriented storyline. Thanks to the magic and mystery, despite knowing the storyline, the audience continues to ask themselves questions.”

  Does this mean that the opera is a recreation of Roméo et Juliette?

  ‘I make all these choices about rhythm and structure together with the conductor. While we should not lose sight of the fact that the original material of this opera is, of course, already Gounod’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s text. That makes opera art. In my view, art is the constant reassembly and transformation of existing material. An opera is never finished, it is an ongoing process.”

  What role do the singers play in this transformation?

  In this opera, the body language of the singers is fundamental. An opera can only take the listener on a three-hour journey if the singer’s body is completely connected to the music and lyrics. Opera singers are not ballet dancers, so what matters to me is that singers use their bodies in a personal and abstract way. What I hear, I want to see reflected in the bodies. Only in this way does the energy come across to the public. Otherwise you might as well listen to a CD.”

  INFO & TICKETS: operazuid.nl/romeo-juliette

  Interview: Manon Berns

• Update impact new corona-measurements tourdates

  20 December 202114:21 Comments Off on Update impact new corona-measurements tourdates

  Due to the Covid-19 measures announced by the Dutch government on Saturday 18 December. the planned shows of Buurt Opera Malpertuis on Thursday 23 December and the performances of Goud! will unfortunately not take place at Dutch National Opera & Ballet until 14 January.

  Registered visitors to the shows of Buurt Opera Malpertuis will be informed personally by Opera Zuid. Ticket Holders of Gold! will be contacted by Dutch National Opera & Ballet.

  We hope to be able to play a next edition live for you in the new year together with the participants of Buurt Opera Malpertuis. The planned Dutch Gold! tour in spring 2022 will continue as usual for the time being.

  We would like to thank you for your understanding.

• Update tour Roméo et Juliette

  26 November 202121:11 Comments Off on Update tour Roméo et Juliette

  On Friday, November 26, the cabinet of the Dutch government held a Covid-19 press conference announcing new measures to further contain the pandemic. As a result, non-essential sectors must be closed from 5:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. for three weeks from Sunday, November 28. This means that the catering industry, gyms, shops and theaters will close earlier.

  Unfortunately, these measures have a direct effect on the course of the tour of our opera production Roméo et Juliette, since the performances are without exception scheduled in the evening. The dates scheduled from Sunday 28 November will therefore be cancelled.

  On Saturday November 27, Roméo et Juliette will be seen live for the last time, in Parktheater Eindhoven, at 20:00.

  We hope to see you at the performance on Saturday!

  TICKETS & INFO www.operazuid.nl/romeo-et-juliette

• Interview with musical director Phillip Pointner

  3 November 202108:55 Comments Off on Interview with musical director Phillip Pointner

  Together with director Julien Chavaz, musical director Phillipp Pointner has adapted the rhythm and structure of Roméo et Juliette to contemporary standards. “Roméo et Juliette has never been performed in this new structure. The result will be very interesting and exciting for the audience.

  How do you characterize the music that Gounod wrote for this opera?

  The opera Roméo et Juliette characterizes the transition to impressionist music. New is the way in which the music highlights the relationship between Roméo and Juliette. The four duets that Roméo and Juliette sing together show the process of falling in love. While listening you discover the unique colors and ingredients of love, as in a watercolor. The battle scene, on the other hand, is very heroic. There are also facets from the opera comique, which will make you laugh. Because Gounod combined motifs from all times, a kind of patchwork opera has arisen.’

  Together with Julien Chavaz you have adapted the rhythm and structure of Gounod’s opera. Why?

  “We must remain loyal to the great masters by playing their music with respect, but we must not be afraid to help them in our time. Unnecessarily probably; I don’t change anything about Gounod’s music, only the structure of the opera is different.’

  What is the most important change?

  ‘The most important? Gounod wrote Roméo et Juliette like a number opera, with room for applause after every scene. Our version of Roméo et Juliette is more continuous. The five deeds have been merged into two parts. In order for these acts to be uninterrupted, I have created new musical transitions. Of course I use Gounod’s music for this. Now there is more flow and less loss of drama. After Juliette’s aria there is room for applause, but not in places where it does not serve the opera.’

  This rewrite requires intensive collaboration with the director. How does that work?

  “Due to Covid, we zoomed a lot in the past year. It is a demanding process in which you decide together which parts of the score to use or not. Also during the rehearsals a lot has been discussed and changed. The result will be very interesting and exciting for the audience, because in this structure, Roméo et Juliette has never been performed! Of course that is a risk. But it feels good. My instinct tells me we made something good.”

  INFO & TICKETS: operazuid.nl/romeo-juliette

  Interview Manon Berns