Venus and Adonis is the only opera by the English baroque composer John Blow. This little gem with its simple plot borrowed from Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a reflection on love.
When the Belgian symbolist writer Maurice Maeterlinck wrote the play Pelléas et Mélisande in 1893, it went on to create a furore.
Director Wouter Van Looy directs, together with the artistic duo Sarah&Charles, stages Blond Eckbert from the Scottish composer Judith Weir, based on the eponymous novel by the Romantic writer Ludwig Tieck.
Composer Eric Sleichim Utopia :: 47 explores the meaning of Heinrich Schütz' spiritual music. In this passion Cristina Zavalloni embodies the figure of the suffering woman.