01 Sep

20:00

TivoliVredenburg / Grote Zaal

Vredenburgkade 11, Utrecht

ART HOUSE 17 presents a flamboyant revue where genres and conventions clash, featuring music from Bach to Sufjan Stevens, alongside dance, clowns, and acrobats in an ode to the beauty of diversity.

ART HOUSE 17 & Friends: Over the Rainbow

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A Flamboyant Revue

On the Baroque opera stage, gender boundaries were surprisingly blurred. Men sang women’s roles, women sang men’s, and castrati sang everything in between. ART HOUSE 17 continues in this vein with a flamboyant revue where genres and conventions cheerfully clash. Music by Bach, Handel, Bertali, Schmelzer, and Vivaldi stands fraternally alongside Sufjan Stevens' Mystery of Love and Somewhere over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz – all played on historical instruments.

The dance is directed by leading Antwerp choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, while the stage action features around 170 members of the inclusive Space Choir and a host of clowns, dancers, and acrobats. This concert format, anything but ordinary, is an ode to the beauty of diversity.

With an introduction by Annelies Andries (19:15 hrs, in Dutch) and a Q&A session (after the concert, in English), both taking place in the Fentener van Vlissingen Foyer (limited capacity). Also live on www.emtv.online.

Programme

Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759): The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (from: Solomon HWV 67), Hush, ye pretty warbling quire! (from: Acis and Galatea HWV 49)
Antonio Bertali or Samuel Capricornus (1605-1669 / 1628-1665): Sonata no. 3 a 3 (from: Prothimia Suavissima, 1672)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Ich habe genung, BWV 82 - Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen
Johann Heinrich Schmelzer (c1623-1680): Saltarello, Gigue, Aria 3, Aria 1
Dinah Washington / Max Richter / arr. Michael Hell (1924-1963 / *1966): This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight
Carl Friedrich Abel / arr. Michael Hell (1723-1787): Arpeggio
Johann Sebastian Bach / Thomas Höft (*1961): Selections from Utrechter Passion, after BWV 245, 2022
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto per flautino, RV 443
Sufjan Stevens / arr. Lucas Vermeer (*1975): Mystery of Love
Erich Wolfgang Korngold / arr. Michael Hell (1897-1957): Mariettas Lied ‘Glück, das mir verblieb’ (from: Die tote Stadt)
Harold Arlen / arr. Michael Hell (1905-1986): Somewhere over the rainbow (from: The Wizard of Oz)

Musicians

Thomas Höft presenter
Johanna Rosa Falkinger soprano
Sophie Daneman soprano
Benedikt Kristjánsson tenor
Dietrich Henschel baritone
Gregory Frateur vocals
Morgan Lugo dance
Mareike Franz clown
Adrián Schvarzstein clown
The Space Choir
Lucas Vermeer choir director
Eastman
Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui choreography
ĀRT HOUSE 17
Maria Kubizek concert master
Blanca Prieto, Manako Ito, Raffaele Nicoletti, Agata Front, Sofija Krsteska violin
Barbara Konrad viola
Hannah Freienstein, Sylvain Rullier cello
Georg Kroneis viola da gamba, violone
Ivan Trenev accordion
Sofie Vanden Eynde theorbo, guitar
Ana Nicolás de Cabo percussion
Michael Hell musical direction, recorder, harpsichord
Thomas Höft dramaturgy
Bettina Dreissger costumes
Georg Kroneis head of production
Bart Abeel facilitator

About the Performers

ĀRT HOUSE 17 is an ensemble conducted by Michael Hell. Besides using historical instruments, the ensemble considers it important to do justice to the broader context in which the music was performed. The central question here is: what does the music have to say today? ĀRT HOUSE 17 has been a guest at the Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht several times in recent years with their music theatre performances such as Kaffeekantate and The Crocodile Bar. The ensemble also created the Utrechter Passion during Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht 2022.