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A four-part vocal and orchestral theatrical work. Its sections set the 1581 Act of Abjuration alongside texts on shipbuilding and matter; Hadewijch’s Seventh Vision; writings connected with De Stijl, Piet Mondrian, and Schoenmaekers; and sonnets by Willem Kloos with extracts from Marie Curie’s diary and Nobel speech.
A multilingual film opera retelling Dante’s Divine Comedy, with a libretto also drawing on the Old Testament and poetry by Joost van den Vondel.
Fictional Argentine composer Juan Manuel de Rosa writes music for westerns and is murdered in Uruguay. He mistreats his fiancée Esmeralda while loving his horse, prompting her to cover herself in ink to resemble the black mare. Two horsemen shoot Rosa; in a staged re-enactment, cowboys marry Esmeralda to his corpse, then carry out his will by killing and burning the horse and the corpse.
At 76, Athanasius Kircher meets a boy who is the devil and is led with his patron Pope Innocent XI on a journey through ancient Egypt, China, and Babylon. Kircher’s fanciful theories collapse, and he recalls having mistakenly given his soul to the devil. As he dies, the boy eats his heart but discovers that Kircher’s soul has escaped him.
In Vermeer’s Delft household in May 1672, his wife Catherine Bolnes, mother-in-law Maria Thins, and fictional model Saskia each write six letters to him while he is away. Their domestic lives contrast with violence outside, which intrudes tragically by the end.
A four-part vocal and orchestral theatrical work. Its sections set the 1581 Act of Abjuration alongside texts on shipbuilding and matter; Hadewijch’s Seventh Vision; writings connected with De Stijl, Piet Mondrian, and Schoenmaekers; and sonnets by Willem Kloos with extracts from Marie Curie’s diary and Nobel speech.
A multilingual film opera retelling Dante’s Divine Comedy, with a libretto also drawing on the Old Testament and poetry by Joost van den Vondel.
Fictional Argentine composer Juan Manuel de Rosa writes music for westerns and is murdered in Uruguay. He mistreats his fiancée Esmeralda while loving his horse, prompting her to cover herself in ink to resemble the black mare. Two horsemen shoot Rosa; in a staged re-enactment, cowboys marry Esmeralda to his corpse, then carry out his will by killing and burning the horse and the corpse.
At 76, Athanasius Kircher meets a boy who is the devil and is led with his patron Pope Innocent XI on a journey through ancient Egypt, China, and Babylon. Kircher’s fanciful theories collapse, and he recalls having mistakenly given his soul to the devil. As he dies, the boy eats his heart but discovers that Kircher’s soul has escaped him.
In Vermeer’s Delft household in May 1672, his wife Catherine Bolnes, mother-in-law Maria Thins, and fictional model Saskia each write six letters to him while he is away. Their domestic lives contrast with violence outside, which intrudes tragically by the end.