ĀRT HOUSE 17 & Friends

ĀRT HOUSE 17 & Friends

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. ÀRT 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

  The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
  Allegro
  (from: Solomon HWV 67, London 1748)
  
  Hush, ye pretty warbling quire!
  Andante
  (from: Acis and Galatea HWV 49, London 1718)

  1685-1759
• Antonio Bertali of Samuel Capricornus

  Sonata no. 3 a 3
  (from: Prothimia Suavissima, 1672)

  1605-1669 / 1628-1665
• Johann Sebastian Bach

  Ich habe genung, BWV 82
  Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen

  1685-1750
• Johann Heinrich Schmelzer

  Saltarello (from: Creso, Vienna 1678)
  Gigue (from: Il pomo d’oro, Vienna 1668)
  Aria 3 (from: Balletto di Matti, Vienna 1670)
  Aria 1 (from: FechtSchuel a 4)

  c1623-1680
• Dinah Washington / Max Richter / arr. Michael Hell

  This Bitter Earth / On the Nature of Daylight

  1924-1963 / *1966
• Carl Friedrich Abel / arr. Michael Hell

  Arpeggio

  1723-1787
• Johann Sebastian Bach / Thomas Höft

  Choral No. 26 ‘In meines Herzens Grunde’
  Arioso No. 19 ‘Betrachte, mein Verstand’
  Aria No. 20 ‘Erwäge’
  Choral No. 40 ‘Ach ja, ob da lieb Engelein’
  (from: Utrechter Passion, after BWV 245, 2022)

  *1961
• Antonio Vivaldi

  Concerto per flautino, RV 443
  Largo
  Allegro molto

  1678-1741
• Sufjan Stevens / arr. Lucas Vermeer

  Mystery of Love

  *1975
• Erich Wolfgang Korngold / arr. Michael Hell

  Mariettas Lied ‘Glück, das mir verblieb’
  (from: Die tote Stadt, Cologne 1920)

  1897-1957
• Harold Arlen / arr. Michael Hell

  Somewhere over the rainbow
  (from: The Wizard of Oz, 1939)
  
  Programme subject to change

  1905-1986

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, Sylvain Rullier violin
• Barbara Konrad viola
• Hannah Freienstein, Alexander Gropper 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